Tens of thousands or more people died en route to the area or in the Kolyma's series of gold mining, road building, lumbering, and construction camps between 1932 and 1954. It was Kolyma's reputation that caused Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, to

After Soviet geologist Yuri Bilibin’s expedition to Kolyma in 1928 he claimed that its subsoil contained more gold than the remaining territory of the entire Soviet Union. When the turbulence...

The dark history of this place was immortalized by a former Kolyma prisoner and writer named Varlam Shalamov. His ‘Kolyma tales’ is probably the most striking and terrifying book about Stalin...

2023年6月7日 · One such place was the Kolyma region in the north-eastern part of Russia, where millions of prisoners lost their lives mining gold from under the ice. It is one of the coldest regions in the world, lying mostly beyond the Arctic Circle.

2020年11月22日 · Vladimir Naiman, the owner of a gold mine off the Kolyma highway whose father, an ethnic German, and maternal grandfather, a Ukrainian, came to the area as prisoners, stumbled during a thaw...

2013年4月1日 · Russia’s Magadan region, also known as Kolyma, is a name that evokes Stalin-era Gulag camps for a generation, where prisoners were forced to mine for gold.

2014年6月1日 · The largest gold metallogenic belts in FER were formed in the late Mesozoic, namely: in the Late Jurassic (Yana-Kolyma), Early Cretaceous (eastern flank of Mongol–Okhotsk, Aldan, Oloy–Chukotka, Okhotsk–Koryak) and Late Cretaceous (Sikhote-Alin). The Mesozoic era was also the time when most of the gold-hosting orogens were formed.

2020年12月13日 · Presents historical description of the region, focusing on the Kolyma Concentration Camp, its origins, how it operated, and how and where it fit overall in the Soviet economy. Provides compelling description of life in the Soviet gulags.

Within this legend there was a prediction of human disaster on enormous scale if and when gold was removed from the frozen ground of Kolyma. The prophecy was later translated into the human calamity of Stalin's purges that delivered millions of people into the cold and inhospitable land to die a cruel and horrible death.

2023年7月25日 · Kolyma. The first explorer who arrived there was a Polish geologist Jan Czerski, who was sent to Siberia for a participation in the January Uprising. By the end of the 1920s in mountains named after him gold was found. This is how the tragedy of Kolyma began – the largest in terms of forced labour and industry part of the Gulag