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‖ sharashka, n. Now Hist.|ʃæˈræʃkə|
[Russ., perh. shortened f. sharashkina kontora ‘a bureaucratic or questionable organization’, but poss. ironic (cf. Ushakov 1940, in Tolkovȳĭ Slovar′ Russkogo Yazȳka: sharashka, a hard object or stick for beating).]
In the U.S.S.R.: a prison camp in which scientists and other specialists were held in conditions thought comfortable or luxurious by others in the prison system. (Soviet prisoners' slang.)
1968T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle p. x, All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged..to the realm of GULAG. 1974― tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. I. ii. iv. 590 And so it was that I got to those paradise islands myself (in convict lingo they are called ‘sharashkas’) and spent half my sentence on them. 1977Guardian Weekly 26 June 22/2 Didn't his author work gratefully too in the same sharashka, or Island of Paradise, as the zeks called these ‘soft’ research camps? 1985Listener 28 Feb. 24/1 Solzhenitsyn's Gulag time was in fact much mitigated by the long spells he spent in a sharashka. These were special camps, filled with scientists and experts of all kinds, which were run more or less like factory estates. |