Meaning of katorga | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Penal servitude in a Russian or Soviet labour camp.
   countable, uncountable
2. A tsarist or Soviet labour camp.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.”

“Under the Bolsheviks there was going to be an end to the katorga.”

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