Kara

Kara, the name of a gold-mining district, in a dreary valley in eastern Siberia, about 300 miles from Chita and nearly 5000 from St Petersburg. The mines are the private property of the czar, and are worked by convicts, of whom there are generally about 2000 stationed here. The annual yield is 6400 oz. of gold. Since 1879 Russian political prisoners have been regularly sent to this remote region. See Kennan's interesting papers in the Century Magazine, June-August 1889.