commonly known as Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian...

Karaganda, Norilsk, Vorkuta and Magadan, were blocks of camps which were originally built by prisoners and subsequently run by ex-prisoners. GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands...

The Vorkuta State Drama Theatre (Russian: Воркутинский государственный драматический театр) is located in the Russian city Vorkuta. It was opened in 1943...

for weeks at a time; then in 1939 he was sentenced to 15 years in the Vorkuta Gulag. He was returned to Moscow in 1941, when he was tried and sentenced...

alleged "anarchist counter-revolutionary" in 1935 and executed in a Gulag camp in Vorkuta during Stalin's Great Purge in 1938. Their youngest daughter Elena...

of the Kazakh gulag". International Herald Tribune, 1 January 2007 Anne Applebaum. "Inside the Gulag". "Anne Applebaum -- Inside the Gulag". Archived from...

communism. She was arrested in 1936, and survived twelve years in the Gulag, in Vorkuta. With the help of her son, she was released in 1948, moving to East...

Retrieved 11 June 2019. Today's major industrial cities of Noril'sk, Vorkuta, Kolyma and Magadan, were camps originally built by prisoners and run by...

peasant rebellion (1920–1921), the Kronstadt rebellion (1921), and the Vorkuta Uprising (1953); the Soviet authorities suppressed such resistance with...

not include prisoner-of-war camps. Norilsk uprising, May 1953 – strike Vorkuta uprising, July 1953 – 66 killed Kengir uprising, May 1954 – 37 killed (official...