Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Vorkuta Gulag (1932–53)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Vorkuta”
1932–1953 — Prisoners opened the Pechora coal basin above the Arctic Circle and built the mines, the railway and the city itself. In July 1953, months after Stalin’s death, thousands struck for review of their sentences; troops broke the strike at Mine No. 29 by opening fire.
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- Gulag forced-labour camps (chapter 5 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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