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Peschanaya, Irkutsk Oblast

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative district
  
Olkhonsky District

Time zone
  
IRKT (UTC+08)

Federal subject
  
Irkutsk Region

Municipal unit
  
Khuzirskiy

Postal code
  
666137

Peschanaya, Irkutsk Oblast

Peschanaya (Russian: Песч́аная) is a village in the Olkhonsky District of Irkutsk region of Russia, a part of the Khuzhirskiy municipal unit. Located in the bay Nurganskaya Guba in the middle part of the western coast of Olkhon Island, in 12 km northeast from the village Kharantsy.

In the late 1930s near the village a correctional labor camp was established for those convicted of hooliganism and larceny. The camp was a part of the GULAG system, the barracks were fenced with barbed wire. The prisoners worked on fishing boats, at the fish factory and a sawmill.

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Peschanaya, Irkutsk Oblast Wikipedia