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Meaning of "katorga" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KATORGA

katorga  [ˈkɑːtəɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KATORGA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Katorga is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KATORGA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

katorga

Katorga

Katorga was a punishment of penal servitude in the prison farm in Tsarist Russia and later expanded in the Soviet Union as gulags. Prisoners were sent to remote penal colonies in vast uninhabited areas of Siberia—where voluntary settlers and workers were never available in sufficient numbers. The prisoners were forced to perform forced labour under harsh conditions.

Definition of katorga in the English dictionary

The definition of katorga in the dictionary is the system of labour camps in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, a precursor to the Gulag system.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KATORGA


Bhavnagar
ˈbɑːvnəɡə
Durga
ˈdʊəɡə
parerga
pəˈrɛəɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KATORGA

katharometer
Katherine
Kathiawar
Kathleen
Kathmandu
katipo
Katla
Katmai
Katmai National Monument
Katmandu
Katowice
Katrine
Katsina
katsura
Kattegat
katydid
Katz
katzenjammer

WORDS THAT END LIKE KATORGA

aga
amiga
Apollonius of Perga
Braga
darga
ga
gaga
jirga
loya jirga
manga
mega
omega
Ortega
saga
terga
tonga
Urga
Vega
virga
yoga

Synonyms and antonyms of katorga in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «katorga» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KATORGA

Find out the translation of katorga to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of katorga from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «katorga» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

katorga
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

katorga
570 millions of speakers

English

katorga
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

katorga
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

katorga
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каторга
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

katorga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

katorga
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

katorga
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Katorga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Katorga
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

katorga
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

katorga
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Katorga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

katorga
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

katorga
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोटागा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

katorga
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

katorga
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

katorga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каторга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

katorga
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Katorga
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

katorga
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Katorga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Katorga
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of katorga

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KATORGA»

The term «katorga» is normally little used and occupies the 115.205 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KATORGA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about katorga

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KATORGA»

Discover the use of katorga in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to katorga and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet ...
189 Such an assessment was not inaccurate, as after less than two years of katorga, almost 50 percent of its inmates became invalids. Though I have not found specific figures on mortality in the katorga divisions, these health numbers indicate ...
Steven A. Barnes, 2011
2
Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas ...
A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" Vlas Mikhaĭlovich Doroshevich. involuntarily entering its midst renounce all previous things “there,” in freedom, even the language he spoke. “Soup” in katorga is “halanda.” One's “government  ...
Vlas Mikhaĭlovich Doroshevich, 2011
3
Katorga
The government brands thousands of innocents as terrorists and thrusts them through a doorway to a barren and frozen world with simple instructions: survive, or don't.
Steven Lloyd Wilson, 2009
4
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
When Russians talked of Siberia, they often said the words katorga and ssylka in the same breath. Katorga — forced labor or penal servitude — was by far the harsher punishment, for its conditions resembled the slave labor of the Soviet era , ...
W. Bruce Lincoln, 2007
5
Dostoevsky's Democracy
It is of a piece with Dostoevsky's actual punishment, mort civile as the deprivation of the nobleman's normative exemption from corporal punishment and the subsequent ejection to a zone—katorga, or the house of the dead—where ...
Nancy Ruttenburg, 2010
6
Guide to the Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection in the Hoover ...
Katorga i ssylka, 1926, No. 6 (27) 15 Review of SHmidt-Ochakovskii , E., Leitenant SHmidt ("Krasnyi admiral"). Vospominaniia syna. Published in Katorga i ssylka, 1926, No. 6 (27) . Signed N-skii 16 "Eshche o Bachine i lUzhakovoi . " Katorga i ...
Anna M. Bourguina, Michael Jakobson
7
Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in ...
(St. Petersburg, 1906), pp. 17, 22-3; Galina Cherniavskaia- Bokhanovskaia, " Avtobiografiia," Katorga i Ssylka, no. 43, p. 27; Footman, Red Prelude, p. 147. 40 E. Sidorenko, "Iz vospominaniia o 1-m Marta 1881 goda," Katorga i Ssylka, no.
Barbara Alpern Engel, 2000
8
Katorga
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Katorga was a system of penal servitude of the prison farm type in Imperial Russia.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
9
In the World of the Outcasts: Notes of a Former Penal ...
Did not this psychological simplicity bind him to the “honesty” he maintained in katorga, even under the influence of hundreds of corrupting examples and proofs , under the pressure of the importunate propaganda of every dirty trick and ...
Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich, 2014
10
Notes from the House of the Dead
Katorga was reserved for legally convicted criminals and was spent in prisons or penal colonies typically connected with mining or other enterprises requiring hard labor; some, such as Dostoevsky's prison, were operated by the mili— tary and ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KATORGA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term katorga is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Brooklyn Vinyl Works Has New Customer Demand — and Very Old …
... Daptone, Katorga Works, Northern Spy, and others. Skyrocketing rent forced him to shut down the Brooklyn plant in 2013, but Socolov didn't ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
2
Shows: Forecast Predicts Raining Men; Enigmatic Band Releases …
Not to mention Ivy is JUST about to put out a new 7″ inch on Katorga Works– we're talking tomorrow– um, that will run you $100 or more if you ... «Bedford + Bowery, Jul 15»
3
'The Pinch: A Novel/A History' by Steve Stern
Through Muni's writing, we learn about his breathless escape from “a cold katorga compound, below the entrance to a mica mine somewhere ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
4
The 10 Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Feufollet, FPSF …
Featuring members of Glue, Wiccans, & Back to Back, the band spent 2014 putting out releases on Katorga Works and Sacred Bones. «Houston Press, Jun 15»
5
NYC's Vanity playing shows, one with Destruction Unit (listen to their …
A few months back they released their album, Vain In Life, on Katorga Works, which is absolutely worth checking out if you haven't already. «Brooklyn Vegan, May 15»
6
Vanity: Drink Beer to This Oi! Rock Masterpiece
... released in the US on cult blog punk label Katorga Works and on Euro oi! and streetpunk label Rebellion Records on that side of the pond]. «Noisey, May 15»
7
It's Noel's Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed
Oh, and the Katorga Works label have just released Sheer Mag's second EP; you might have trouble buying a hard copy but it's all on their ... «The Quietus, May 15»
8
Olympia punks Vexx touring, playing 3 NYC shows, two with Pissed …
More recently, they hooked up with trusty New York label Katorga Works, who released their new EP, Give And Take, this week. Give And Take ... «Brooklyn Vegan, Apr 15»
9
Mohawks, Heavy Chains, and Lots of Studs: Photos from New York's …
At the core of New York's Alright, now in it's third year, is the thriving New York punk scene, with several record labels (Katorga Works, Toxic ... «Noisey, Apr 15»
10
Sheer Mag, 'Fan The Flames'
Now, we're all fist-bumping the hustle. II is out now on Katorga Works and Bandcamp. [+] read more[-] less. Share. Facebook; Twitter; Google+ ... «NPR, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Katorga [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/katorga>. May 2024 ».
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