Tamara Filatova was 19 years old in 1948 when she was sentenced to 20 years in the gulag for the "crime" of being an ethnic German. Part of her sentence was served at the Dneprovsky labor camp in the ...

Kolyma is a desolate swathe of northeastern Siberia, one-third of the size of Europe, where some of the Soviet gulag's worst atrocities took place. Spurred by the need for resources to finance his ...

The Kolyma Streetcar is the one that can run you down and you just might not end up dead. Kolyma convicts saying The fishing settlement of Bugurchan, which dragged out an obscure existence on the ...

Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), who has been appointed head of the Crimean Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church, has compared occupied Crimea with Kolyma. During the mass repressions of ...

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 died in the ...

As the son of Victor A. Kravchenko, one of the first Soviet defectors to inform the worldwide public about the Stalinist system, including the gulag labor camps, I feel it important to respond to ...

Authorities in Russia's Far Eastern town of Debin have shut down a museum devoted to prominent writer Varlam Shalamov, who was widely known for his short stories about his years in a gulag in the ...

The 216 people on board the Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco that made an emergency landing on Tuesday are stranded in Russia's remote town of Magadan, a key transit point of the infamous ...