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Remembering the Soviet Labor Camps

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The Gulags were a network of labor camps created by the Soviet Union from the 1920s that reached their apex after the Second World War. The camps remain an enduring symbol of a repressive regime. Events have been held in and around Moscow on October 29-30 to commemorate the victims of repression.

The Gulags were a network of labor camps created by the Soviet Union from the 1920s that reached their apex after the Second World War. The camps remain an enduring symbol of a repressive regime. Events have been held in and around Moscow on October 29-30 to commemorate the victims of repression.

© RIA Novosti . Igor Mikhalev / Go to the mediabankThe Gulags were a network of labor camps created by the Soviet Union from the 1920s that reached their apex after the Second World War. The camps remain an enduring symbol of a repressive regime. Events have been held in and around Moscow on October 29-30 to commemorate the victims of repression.
The photos shows a map of the Soviet Union with the location of the 162 camps from Stalin’s rule. The map was a display at a 1988 exhibition during Conscience Week organized by the Memorial civil rights group.
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The Gulags were a network of labor camps created by the Soviet Union from the 1920s that reached their apex after the Second World War. The camps remain an enduring symbol of a repressive regime. Events have been held in and around Moscow on October 29-30 to commemorate the victims of repression.
The photos shows a map of the Soviet Union with the location of the 162 camps from Stalin’s rule. The map was a display at a 1988 exhibition during Conscience Week organized by the Memorial civil rights group.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankA labor camp of the 1930s-40s: Construction workers’ barracks at the Panyshevsky power plant.
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A labor camp of the 1930s-40s: Construction workers’ barracks at the Panyshevsky power plant.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankInterior of the barracks at the Panyshevsky Collective Labor Camp.
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Interior of the barracks at the Panyshevsky Collective Labor Camp.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankAn isolation ward used to discipline inmates at a labor camp in Vorkuta.
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An isolation ward used to discipline inmates at a labor camp in Vorkuta.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankWomen’s barracks at a labor camp in Vorkuta.
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Women’s barracks at a labor camp in Vorkuta.
© RIA Novosti . V. Pavlov / Go to the mediabankMaximum security barracks at a labor camp on the Kolyma River.
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Maximum security barracks at a labor camp on the Kolyma River.
© RIA Novosti . Pavlov / Go to the mediabankButugychag, a word meaning “death valley” in the native Evenki language, was one of the harshest camps, located along the Kolyma River. The camp was named by the nomadic hunters and reindeer breeders who came across a vast plain strewn with human bones.
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Butugychag, a word meaning “death valley” in the native Evenki language, was one of the harshest camps, located along the Kolyma River. The camp was named by the nomadic hunters and reindeer breeders who came across a vast plain strewn with human bones.
© RIA Novosti . Pavlov / Go to the mediabankInmates worked at the Butugychag uranium enrichment plant without protective gear.
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Inmates worked at the Butugychag uranium enrichment plant without protective gear.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankThe Solovki Special Purpose Camp on the Solovetsky Islands in the northern Arkhangelsk region was created in October 1923 by a decree of the Council of People’s Commissars. The camp was incorporated within the grounds and buildings of the former Solovetsky Monastery, which was shut down in 1920.
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The Solovki Special Purpose Camp on the Solovetsky Islands in the northern Arkhangelsk region was created in October 1923 by a decree of the Council of People’s Commissars. The camp was incorporated within the grounds and buildings of the former Solovetsky Monastery, which was shut down in 1920.
© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankThe unmarked graves of political prisoners at Solovki.
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The unmarked graves of political prisoners at Solovki.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Fedorenko / Go to the mediabankA dungeon in the Solovki prison camp.
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A dungeon in the Solovki prison camp.
© RIA Novosti . V. Pavlov / Go to the mediabankThe remnants of the Simbir-Olchan labor camp in the far eastern province of Yakutia.
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The remnants of the Simbir-Olchan labor camp in the far eastern province of Yakutia.
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