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 ...

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. Rummu prison in ...

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… ...

Since then, the railway’s gulag camps have lain abandoned, sinking further into the forest under the weight of each winter’s snow.

For example, the abandoned building beside the monastery housed the camp administration. 2. White Sea-Baltic forced labor camp (Belbaltlag) Construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal Gulag History ...

A bed in an abandoned Siberian Gulag, by Dr. A. Hugentobler extracted from a “Mental Floss” magazine Photo pictorial of now abandoned Gulag sites by a curious adventurer Filatova Elena Vladimirovna ...

The spooky Gulag outpost of Kadykchan was officially closed after the fall of the Soviet Union and a coal mine explosion in 1996 which killed six.

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.

Having spent nine years in the gulag, I know something about loneliness. Back then, locked up in a Soviet prison, I was for years denied the company of other human beings. It was absolutely ...