katorga
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katorga
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From Russian ка́торга (kátorga, “penal servitude”).
noun katorgas
- A tsarist or Soviet labour camp. Each subsequent victory drove fresh contingents of the doomed into katorga or to the gallows— […] On the heels of the army came the tribunals, publicly hanging some people on the spot, dispatching others to the newly created katorga forced-labor camps.
- Penal servitude in a Russian or Soviet labour camp. Sentenced to ten years of hard labor in the Siberian mines, he defied the Russian tyrant by his funeral oration at the grave of Dmokhovsky, his boldness resulting in an additional fifteen years of katorga.
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Talk about this word "katorga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/katorga. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. katorga. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/katorga "katorga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/katorga.Cite this
@misc{katorga_2026,
title = {katorga},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/katorga},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
