Definition of Sharashkas. Meaning of Sharashkas. Synonyms of Sharashkas

- Sharashkas (singular: Russian: шара́шка, [ʂɐˈraʂkə]; sometimes sharaga, sharazhka) were secret research and development laboratories operating from 1930...
- prisons, much more comfortable than the gulag, colloquially known as sharashkas. These prisoners continued their work in these prisons and were later...
- in English in 2009. The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of Gulag inmates) located in the...
- (preceding the KGB), taken back to the Soviet Union and made to work in a sharashka laboratory prison camp at Magadan, Siberia. He reappeared 30 years later...
- Great Purge, Petlyakov and other weapons designers were instead sent to sharashkas, special prisons run by the NKVD where such valuable prisoners could continue...
- special category of repression. Secret research laboratories known as Sharashka (шарашка) held arrested and convicted scientists, some of them prominent...
- facility, and Korolev was brought here to work. During World War II, this sharashka designed both the Tupolev Tu-2 bomber and the Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber...
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Мясищев; 28 September 1902 – 14 October 1978) was a Soviet aircraft designer, major general...
- which the arrested engineers worked, became one of the first so-called "Sharashka's". In 1936, Leonid Ramzin was granted amnesty and released from prison...
- secret Gulag detention facilities for scientists and engineers, known as sharashkas. From 1945, he personally oversaw the Soviet atomic bomb project, which...