Katorga (ка́торга, from medieval Greek: "katergon," κάτεργον galley) was a system of penal servitude of the prison farm type in Imperial Russia.
Katorga (ка́торга, from medieval Greek: "katergon," κάτεργον galley) was the precurser to the Gulag system. It was a system of penal servitude of the prison farm type in Imperial Russia.