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 ...

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 ...

Eduard Kolga -During the first two years of Soviet occupation, Estonian born Canadian, Eduard Kolga, worked on his family farm in the rural farming community of Haapsalu to support his growing family… ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...