Anna Krikun spent a decade in a Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, the city in the Russian Arctic where 36 workers died in coal-mine disaster last month. Krikun survived dictator Josef Stalin’s Great ...

Solovki, Vorkuta, Kolyma — the names are still tinged with the tragic events of the 1930s and 40s. But few know what these place are like nowadays.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, Chukotka was part of the gulag prison camp system, ... Though the uranium mine has been closed since the 1950s, radiation levels remain high in the area.

What does ‘Gulag’ mean for modern Russia? Gulag has become a part of popular culture, not only in Russia, but all over the world. “Send him to gulag” is a popular insult on the internet.

I lost all of mine in gulag.” When life was good Potashov went to Moscow in 1966 as a 17-year-old student, graduated as a mathematician from the Moscow Physics-Technical Institute and eventually ...