The Kara is a river in

Transbaikalia Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia. The steppe and ...

, in Eastern Siberia. It is a left tributary of the Shilka, with the mouth at

Ust-Karsk Ust-Karsk (russian: Усть-карск), formerly known as Ust-Kara (russian: Усть-кара) is an urban-type settlement in the Sretensky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The settlement is located on the northern bank of the Shilka ...

. It is long. In 1832

gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

was found by the Kara. The deposit by the river was one of the richest in Transbaikalia. To man the gold mines, the system of

Kara katorga Kara katorga (Russian: Карийская каторга, Kariyskaya katorga) was the name for a set of katorga prisons of extremely high security located along the Kara River in Transbaikalia (a tributary of the Shilka River, flowing into it at ...

prisons (1830–98) was established.

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Rivers of Zabaykalsky Krai {{Russia-river-stub