Alzhir, Memorial Museum of Victims of Political Repressions and Totalitarianism

From Russia with love . . .

Alzhir, the camp for the wives of traitors of Motherland, is by definition a depressing place to visit. However, it is important you do. Stalin's paranoid atrocities cannot be better illustrated than ...

Nice mainly courtyard

Museum is unfortunately only average, but a courtyard is excellent. All exponents have also english description. Free parking is available.

Memorial Museum of Victims of Soviet Union Political Repression

ALZHIR - Akmola camp for the wives of traitors of Motherland - one of the largest camps of Soviet Union and one of the three "islands" of the "Gulag Archipelago". The camp was opened in the beginning ...

Strength of facts

Maybe it's not the most attractive place to visit when you're in Kazakhstan, but once to see is better than a hundred times to hear. Moreover the exhibition is more about pure facts than ideology, and...

Sad place

Original Text

The museum tells about the camp for the wives of the betrayers of the Motherland. It is necessary to take either a tour or an audio guide, because most of the exhibition is dedicated to the memories and history of the convicted persons