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.

Location: Amur Region (7,700 km east of Moscow) Period of existence: 1932-1938 Max. number of prisoners: 200,000 Even compared to other Gulag construction projects, the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM ...

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.

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 ...

Funding for this program is provided by... (Pfizer) At Pfizer, we’re spending over five billion dollars looking for the cures of the future. We have 12,000 scientists and health experts who ...

As someone who spent nine years in a Soviet gulag for political reasons, Natan Sharansky knows the loneliness Jews are feeling now. But he has faith good people are standing with Jews and they'll ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...