An abandoned Soviet gulag has become a popular dive site for adventurous explorers and tombstone jumpers thanks to the crystal-clear lake that now submerge much of the building.

A GULAG town in the icy tundras now sits frozen in time as it became Russia’s most depressing place. Vorkuta is a cemetery of soulless tower blocks, where homes sell for as little as 1p to th… ...

Vorkuta was once the centre of a sprawling network of coal mines scattered around the Arctic city of 220,000 residents like the hour indicators on a vast clockface. Today, most of the settlements ...

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&#821… ...

Artists transform an abandoned Stalin-era Russian gulag by painting murals of its lost residents on the walls of the ghost town's crumbling buildings.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, Chukotka was part of the gulag prison camp system, and became the graveyard of tens of thousands of prisoners. ... 2 A view from a helicopter of an abandoned mine.

In 2015, employees of the Gulag History Museum went on an expedition to Chukotka to explore what was left of the camps where prisoners had slaved to extract, among other things, radioactive ...

Photographer Maria Passer tells CNN Travel about her recent travels to the frozen ghost towns that surround the Arctic coal mining center of Vorkuta, Russia.

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.