The history of the Dead Road
The construction of the railway began in 1947 and most of the workers (up to 100,000 according to some estimates) comprised prisoners from Gulag la...
A Journey to the Gulag - documentary movie
Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you have to walk miles in their shoes. This film follows the Gulag.cz team and their third expedition to the Dead Road to the remains of an abandoned railway and Gulags in Northern Siberia, where data for virtual museum Gulag Online were gathered.
You can watch the whole film with English subtitles on our Youtube channel, or on the website www.journeytothegulag.com, where you will also find other information and photos related to the film.
