Its duration and intensity distinguished Check it from other Gulag uprisings in the same period ( `` see '' Vorkuta uprising ) .

After the murder Killing of some of their fellow prisoners by guards , Kengir inmates launched Military_operation a rebellion and proceeded to seize Hold the entire camp compound , holding Hold it for weeks and creating Creating a period of freedom for themselves unique in the history of the Gulag .

The story of the uprising Change_of_leadership was first committed Commitment to history in `` The Gulag Archipelago '' , a work by former prisoner and Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn .