Perm-36, also known as ITK-6, is the only intact facility remaining in Russia from the Soviet-era gulag system of political prisons and labor camps. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Perm-36 was ...

PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests ... but to timber production at the camp and its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II. "During times of great tribulations ...

Visitors to the Perm-36 museum in the Urals can stroll through a well-preserved prison camp of the Gulag system established by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. But despite the authenticity of the site ...

Susanne Sternthal is a visiting fellow at King’s College London’s Russia Institute ... prisons for Soviet dissidents, operating until 1988, well into the Gorbachev years. Perm-36 was grouped ...

Residents of different parts of Russia recall what was available in Soviet food stores and what ... The Okolitsa store, Perm. Anatoly Sedelnikov/TASS “We were not starving,” says Olga ...

The era feels impossible now, in a Russia that's increasingly closed, controlled and paranoid: Crowds dancing as buskers played world beats in a muddy field outside the governor's office.

After he escaped across the border, and after the Iranians sent him back, Klymchak wound up in a camp called Perm-36, one of the last large political prisons in the Soviet Union. He remained there ...

In Fall 2010, the Havighurst Center chose to explore the history of the Gulag as its semester-long focus. In addition to hosting speakers on the subject for the Havighurst Colloquia Series, the Center ...

Named after the city of Perm in the ... the dissolution of the Soviet Union. While the lead vessel, Severodvinsk, was laid down in 1993 due to funding issues caused by Russia‘s financial crisis ...

It has become commonplace to perceive Vladimir Putin as reverting to Soviet ways. So it seemed natural, shortly after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia ...