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Kolyma

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Kolyma

River in northeast Siberia, Russian Federation; length 2,129 km/1,323 mi. Its source is in the Kolyma Mountains, from where it flows northeast into the Arctic Ocean. The Kolyma drains a total area of 643,000 sq km/248,262 sq mi. A major gold-mining industry has developed in the upper Kolyma region, which was formerly notorious for its forced labour camps (see Magadan oblast (region)).



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Were it not for writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn we might never know of Soviet death camps like Magadan, Kolyma and Vorkuta.
Ukraine honours Stalin famine victims by Catholic Insight
And work in the nearby Kolyma gold fields was so backbreaking thai very few survived it for more than a couple of years.
Red scare: fifty years after his death, Stalin's crimes are still ... by Clark, Bruce / Washington Monthly
Any attempt to keep a modern form of humanism afloat will, as Tzvetan Todorov wrote recently, "far from ignoring Auschwitz and Kolyma, take them as a starting point.
A Matter of Writing Life and Death. by McDonald, Michael P. / The National Interest
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