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Krasnoyarsk

At various periods was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yeniseilag, Tayozhlag, Zhelezlag) and POW camps.

Jan Plovajko

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...

Yelena Posnik

Born in Russia in 1924, she was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag in 1945 as a twenty-one year old for speaking to German soldiers as a German tea...

Jiří Bezděk

Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...

Tomáš Hájek

Čtvrtý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror

The Tungus Uprising: the Siberian Revolt of Hunters and Reindeer Herders

One hundred years ago, the Evenks and Yakuts rose up against Soviet domination and created their own state