Installation of the memorial ALZhIR/Ravkat Mukhtarov
A. L. J. I. R. — this is how the prisoners called the Akmola camp for the wives of traitors to the motherland, located in the middle of the Kazakh steppe. Widows and children of those executed during the Great Terror in 1937 served their sentences here. Especially for Qalam, journalist Sergey Nikolaevich collected eyewitness accounts of how life was arranged in the largest women's prison in the USSR.