The Kolyma camps switched to using (mostly) free labor after 1954, and in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev ordered a general amnesty that freed many prisoners. Various estimates have put …

The opposite of the “metropolitan” Dmitrovlag was Kolyma. The USSR gave short shrift to camp inmates dispatched to the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk to mine gold and tin, and build ...

In the faraway northeast lands of Russia, there was a ‘Sevvostlag’ (“North-East”) Gulag branch. It consisted of several labor camps along the Kolyma riverbed, thus the unofficial name ‘Kolyma’....

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. 1. Solovetsky special purpose camp …

Dec 7, 2020 · Plans are in place for an open-air museum at a Soviet-era labor camp in Kolyma, where thousands of innocent people were killed under dictator Josef Stalin.

Jun 7, 2023 · Stalin established over 100 slave labor camps in Kolyma. These camps were intended for the "enemies of the people", in which the Soviet authorities included all Poles who …

Kolyma Off to the Unknown Stalin's Notorious Prison Camps in Siberia by Ayyub Baghirov (1906-1973) Arrested in 1937, sentenced under false charges in 1939 to eight years of corrective …

Sevvostlag (Russian: Северо-восточные исправительно-трудовые лагеря, Севвостлаг, СВИТЛ, North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps) was a system of forced labor camps set up …

Nov 22, 2020 · The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.

Apr 28, 2011 · Pavel Galitsky spent fifteen years in the brutal labour camps of Kolyma, Siberia. Against the odds, the 100-year old dissident is still alive and Skype'ing, having outlived both his...