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Order to create Sevvostlag forced labour camp, 1 April 1932. Sevvostlag (Russian: Северо-восточные исправительно-трудовые лагеря, Севвостлаг, СВИТЛ, North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps) was a system of forced labor camps set up to satisfy the workforce requirements of the Dalstroy construction trust in the Kolyma region in April 1932.
Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov.
Magadan Oblast. Larch forest in the Upper Kolyma Highlands. Kolyma (Колыма́, IPA: [kəɫɨˈma]) or Kolyma Krai (Колымский край) is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River and the northern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Kolyma Mountains (the watershed of the two [1]).
The camp also contained a top secret research-medical facility where a series of experiments were conducted on camp inmates. [4] Witnesses of the camp state that the camp took the life of some 380,000 people in the 10 years of its existence, despite a maximum capacity of 31,500 only having been reached in 1952. [ 1 ]
In 2007, Russian Television produced the series "Lenin's Testament"(Завещание Ленина), based on Kolyma Tales. [10] A minor planet 3408 Shalamov discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named after him. [11] A memorial to Shalamov was erected in Krasnovishersk in June 2007, the site of his first ...
The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland (Russian: Колымское нагорье, romanized: Kolymskoye Nagorye), is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kolyma region. [1]
The Kolyma begins at the confluence of the Kulu and the Ayan-Yuryakh (Kolyma a natural continuation of Ayan-Yuryakh). The confluence happens in the Okhotsk-Kolyma Upland (Охотско-Колымское нагорье), which lies within the watershed that separates the Kolyma basin and the basins of rivers flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk. [7]
Four days ago, during the events of the episode "Mom of a Croc", while snowboarding across the Canadian tundra, the Kratt brothers discover a mother polar bear and her cub, and Martin is almost attacked by the protective mother. After a narrow escape, Chris and Martin learn about the intense rivalry between the Arctic polar bear, and another ...