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- noun Alternative form of
sharashka .
Etymologies
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From Russian шарага (šarága).
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Examples
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Tupolev, worked from a sharaga, a secret NKVD research camp, where he was a prisoner living under fear of even worse.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Lyuty served four years in a labor camp, cutting wood near Kansk, and then was transferred to a sharaga near Moscow, where scientists and designers served their sentences.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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