{"id":47890,"date":"2025-10-10T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47890"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:09:39","slug":"the-karlag-infirmary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-karlag-infirmary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karlag infirmary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former infirmary of the Soviet prison labour camp in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karaganda\">Karaganda<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karlag\">(KarLag<\/a><\/strong>) reveals a bare interior where medical care must have been rudimentary. This labour camp, one of the largest in the USSR, covered 60,000 km\u00b2 of steppe land converted into fields or pastures, to which up to 1 million prisoners were deported. An Austrian doctor, Angela Rohr, described the reality of the Gulag healthcare system in a rare testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits : Mathilde Ramkissoon<\/strong> (France, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sovietblocs\/\">@sovietblocs<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former infirmary of the Soviet prison labour camp in Karaganda (KarLag) reveals a bare interior where medical care must have been rudimentary. This labour camp, one of the largest in the USSR, covered 60,000 km\u00b2 of steppe land converted into fields or pastures, to which up to 1 million prisoners were deported. An Austrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4871,1923,470,4002,4651],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-47890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-gulag","tag-karaganda","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-soviet-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47895,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47890\/revisions\/47895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}