Vorkutlag - Wikipedia
The camp housed 73,000 prisoners at its peak in 1951, containing Soviet and foreign prisoners including prisoners of war, dissidents, political prisoners ("enemies of the state") and common …
Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia - History Today
6 天之前 · The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile. Alan Wood | Published in History Today …
Prison Camps in Siberia - Spartacus Educational
The discovery of the Daurski silver mines, and the rich mines of Nerchinsk in the Siberian territory of the Trans-Baikal, created a sudden demand for labor, which led the government to …
Hell on Earth: The Sulfur Mines of Sicily - La Gazzetta Italiana
By the end of the 19th century, 90 percent of the world’s sulfur came from Sicily. At this time there were more than 800 mines and more than 30,000 workers. In the early years, sulfur was …
Vorkuta Gulag, The Soviets' Most Notorious Forced Labor Camp
2022年8月10日 · Also known as Vorkutlag, the prison camp at the Vorkuta gulag was situated 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and housed 2 million prisoners between 1932 and 1962. At the …
List of Gulag camps - Wikipedia
The list below, enumerates the selected sites of the Soviet forced labor camps of the Gulag, known in Russian as the "corrective labor camps", abbreviation: ITL. Most of them served …
Collections from Siberia and the Russian Far East
The prison was located at the Akatuy silver mine in Nerchinsk okrug (district) in the Transbaikal Territory of Siberia. Thousands of political prisoners were exiled to Siberia from European …
Life in Stalin's Gulags - The Atlantic
2013年3月4日 · Global. Life in Stalin's Gulags. By Tom Balmforth. March 4, 2013. Vorkuta - a labor-camp-cum-city -- was built from nothing on an icebound wasteland by political prisoners …
Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the ...
2023年8月19日 · Interestingly, the small sulphur mines of the nineteenth century Sicily have several aspects that resemble contemporary artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of …
Siberia, prison, or straight to the mines? - Meduza
2023年10月12日 · Siberia, prison, or straight to the mines? A timeline of Russia’s debate over what to do with citizens who left but want to return. 3:48 am, October 12, 2023. Source: …