Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Narym special settlements (1930–33)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Narym”
1930–1933 — The marshy taiga of Narym in western Siberia received tens of thousands of deported families as “special settlers”. On Nazino island in May 1933, about 6,000 newly deported people were left without food or shelter; most of them died or vanished within weeks.
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- Collectivisation in the USSR (chapter 2 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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