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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 ...
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 ]
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.
Serpantinka, according to testimonies, was a small camp - a few barracks (more precisely, three), a house for officials and guards, and a garage. The garage was an unusual object for such a small camp, especially since there were already large garages nearby. The testimonies describe that the number of prisoners was too large for such a small camp.
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.
The main rivers of the district are the Kolyma River and its tributaries. Most of the territory of the district is part of the Kolyma lowland. The Yukaghir Plateau, reaching a maximum height of 1,128 m (3,701 ft) at Mount Chubukulakh, rises in the east and some eastern foothills of the Chersky Range to the west, such as the Arga-Tas in the southwest and the Osalin Range in the northwest.
In 1649, Russians on the Kolyma ascended the Anyuy River branch of the Kolyma and learned that one could travel from its headwaters to the headwaters of the Pogycha-Anadyr. In 1650 Stadukhin and Semyon Motora followed this route and stumbled onto Dezhnyov's camp. The land route was clearly superior and Dezhnyov's sea route was never used again.