At that time, General Mikhail Maltsev came to Vorkuta to take the position of GULAG labor camps’ local ... Many people, including prisoners, remembered that Maltsev and other high-ranking ...

Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment cell for prisoners A guard’s ...

Leonas Bogdanavichus was sent to the Vorkuta gulag, one of the largest and deadliest in the Soviet Union, as a prisoner, after hiding a Jewish couple in his café in Kaunas, Lithuania. Told by his ...