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Magadan

A port city in north-eastern Siberia in the Far East. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to camps in the area of the Kolyma.

Václav Djačuk

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. Arrested entering the USSR in July 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Kolyma. Released in 1943.

Sofia Malylju

Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. Studied in Prague. Arrested in Lvov in 1948. Passed through the Gulag at Kolyma and Tayshet. Released in 1956.

Anton a Karel Šilhaví

Anton Šilhavý pomáhal elektrifikovat SSSR, zatčen v roce 1936, poslán na Kolymu a popraven. Karel Šilhavý pracoval v SSSR jako inženýr, zatčen 1938...

Jozef Bobalik

Born in 1928 in the east of Slovakia. In 1947 his family left for the Soviet Union. In 1948 arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Gulag

Irena Kawaschová

In March 1945 she was arrested and taken by Soviet soldiers to Kolyma, where her son Ján was born in the Gulag. After 1953 she returned to Slovakia...

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