Pestchanlag

Machine-translated from the French article

Peschanlag (Russian: Песчанлаг) was Special Camp No. 8, later called the "Peschanlag Corrective Labour Camp (Russian acronym: ITL)", whose centre was located in the city of Karaganda, in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, at the time in the USSR. "Peschani" means sandy in Russian and "lager" means camp, "lag" being the usual abbreviation for camps. The Peschanlag camp as a special camp for political prisoners was created on 5 September 1949 on the basis of the infrastructure of Prisoner of War Camp No. 99.