sharashka

I among them, would have been left in "sharashkas" later described by Solzhenitsyn and others (a "sharashka" is in fact a prison were scientific and technical research was conducted).

Vitaly L. Ginzburg - Autobiography 2004

Ease My Sorrows, he familiarizes us with substantial chapters of his autobiography, including the years spent in the so-called sharashka, the prison of scientists.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2009

Nerzhin refuses to work on the voice identification technology, knowing he will be expelled from the sharashka and transferred back into the Gulag proper.

Alan Elsner: Solzhenitsyn's Great Masterwork 2010

The prisoners of the sharashka may be in their own version of hell -- but in fact the country has been turned into a kind of penal colony.

Alan Elsner: Solzhenitsyn's Great Masterwork 2010

Enter the prisoner-scientists of the sharashka, some of whom are working on voice identification technology.

Alan Elsner: Solzhenitsyn's Great Masterwork 2010

The prisoners, or zeks, in the sharashka have it easier than in other Soviet camps -- they have enough to eat, warm, dry clothes, comfortable beds and access to work materials.

Alan Elsner: Solzhenitsyn's Great Masterwork 2010

The Russian slang word for such a prison research institute is "sharashka."

Alan Elsner: Solzhenitsyn's Great Masterwork 2010

It was a slang term related to the Russian word “sharashka” — “a special scientific or technical institute staffed with prisoners” — the prisoners of these Soviet labor camps were called zeks.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

In fact, he was now in a sharashka, an advanced lab and design shop within the Gulag system, and worked alongside such famous figures as the aircraft designer, Tupolev and Korolyov, father of the

CounterPunch 2010

In fact, he was now in a sharashka, an advanced lab and design shop within the Gulag system, and worked alongside such famous figures as the aircraft designer, Tupolev and Korolyov, father of the

CounterPunch 2010