sharashkan.

/ʃaˈraʃkə/

Etymology: Russian, perhaps shortened < sharashkina kontora ‘a bureaucratic or questionable organization’, but possibly ironic (compare Ushakov 1940, in Tolkovȳĭ Slovar′ Russkogo Yazȳka: sharashka, a hard object or stick for beating).

Now historical.

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.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > Soviet or U.S.S.R.

Siberia1841

Lubyanka1963

sharashka1968

Gulag1975

1968 T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle p. x All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged..to the realm of GULAG.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn 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.

1977 Guardian 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?

1985 Listener 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	sharashka
释义	sharashkan. /ʃaˈraʃkə/ Etymology: Russian, perhaps shortened < sharashkina kontora ‘a bureaucratic or questionable organization’, but possibly ironic (compare Ushakov 1940, in Tolkovȳĭ Slovar′ Russkogo Yazȳka: sharashka, a hard object or stick for beating). Now historical. 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.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > Soviet or U.S.S.R. Siberia1841 Lubyanka1963 sharashka1968 Gulag1975 1968 T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle p. x All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged..to the realm of GULAG. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn 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. 1977 Guardian 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? 1985 Listener 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1968
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