isolated settlement gained importance as transit centre for prisoners sent to gulags. Prisoners were coerced into forced labour, most of them in construction...

areas now known as Magadan Oblast and Chukotka were home to the Kolyma Gulag, a network of work-camps the size of France where approximately 500,000-1...

Baikal-Amur Mainline 59.566667150.85 Magadan — in the heart of the Kolyma Gulag network 53.016667158.656 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky — gateway to nature lovers'...

03981460.1315192 Inta — a small city which housed one of the region's many gulags 65.00916753.9169443 Izhma — an old Komi village on the Izhma river, with...

by the Kama River. Perm was known as the "Gateway to the Gulag" and the horrors of the Gulags are on display at a nearby museum. During Soviet times, Perm...

prisoners, started to operate in Stalin's Gulag times. Going deeper into taiga, it's possible to find abandoned gulag locations and even small unpopulated...

point for expeditions into the Kodar Mountain ranges and several local gulag sites. By train on the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The city can be covered on...

1949 and Stalin's death in 1953. The project failed and thousands of the gulag laborers died in the process. It is the main port via which the timber harvested...

Solovetsky symbolises Russia's spiritual past. Memories of Stalin's infamous GULAG camps speak of darker times. 65.02544835.7098631 Solovetsky Monastery, Bolshoy...

manufactures shirts, furniture, bricks and electromechanical items. Kotlas had a Gulag (labour camp) in the 1930s - 1950s, inhabited by deported kulaks and other...

8423441 Achair Convent. A beautiful convent outside Omsk, which was used as a gulag in the 1930s, where over 100,000 perished from malnutrition and the cold...

here. In Soviet times the city hold administration of Siblag, the Siberian gulag. Mariinsk is at the Trans-Siberian. By train from Novosibirsk it takes 5...

platinum, and palladium. It was initially founded as one of Stalin's notorious gulags, in which political prisoners were used for forced labour in the mines....

associated with Vorkutlag, one of the most notorious forced labour camps of the Gulag. It was established in 1932 after massive depots of coal was found in the...

along the "old" route of the Kolyma Highway aka Road of Bones, built by gulag prisoners during Stalin's era. Along the road there are carved bridges,...

city, home to the world's biggest open-cast coal field, and former home to gulag prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 53.2824569.3969192 Kokshetau — the administrative...

2833333 Chernogorsk — Second largest population center and location of former gulag 53.191.44 Sayanogorsk — an extraordinarily polluted aluminum smelting town...

Dunes, numerous small, isolated Evenk villages, and a former Stalinist gulag network; reachable via plane or rail from Chita or via the Baikal-Amur Mainline...

It was founded in 1939 as a railway station and later became home to a gulag. Today it is a small city of about 26,000 on the left bank of the Izhma...

traditional homeland up to this day. Stalin also put in place the infamous gulag concentration camps to jail dissidents, prisoners of war and intellectuals...