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Humanitarian sciences in Siberia

2013 year, number

Research Activities of Scientists – Prisoners of KarLAG in the 1930s-1950s

K.K. Abdrakhmanova
Keywords: science under conditions of political repression, GuLAG, KarLAG, imprisoned scientists, intelligentsia, Central Kazakhstan

Abstract

The article written on the archival materials and memoirs deals with research activities of scientists imprisoned and working at the agricultural experimental station and other subdivisions of the KarLAG in the 1930s–1950s . The author shows that despite extreme conditions of camp life the political prisoners accomplished a lot in the spheres of selection, genetics and seed breeding . Their research played a significant role in the development of agriculture in Central Kazakhstan .