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Kuzmichenko, Svetlana (1998) Magadan Region Update, U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service and U.S. Department of State. During the Pleistocene the ecology of this part of Beringia was quite different from modern times, with the extinct Wooly mammoth and the wooly rhinoceros being present. [31]

Industrial gold-mining started in 1958 leading to the development of mining settlements, industrial enterprises, power plants, hydro-electric dams, power transmission lines and improved roads. By the 1960s, the region's population exceeded 100,000. David Satter on life in the Soviet police state", David Satter, The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2013. [ permanent dead link] Shalamov's friend, Fedot Fedotovich Suchkov, erected a monument on the burial plot, which was destroyed by unknown vandals in 2001. The criminal case was closed as uncompleted. With the help of some workers from SeverStal the monument was reestablished in 2001. Hochschild, Adam (1994). "17: Beyond the Pole Star". The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (published 2003). p.237. ISBN 0-547-52497-8 . Retrieved 14 June 2017. Secret police authorities in Kolyma today say there are records—sometimes a complete file, sometime just a name on a list—of two million men and women who were shipped to the territory between 1930 and the mid-1950s. But no one knows, even approximately, how many of these prisoners died. Even historians who have spent years studying Kolyma come up with radically different numbers. I asked four such researchers, who between them have written or edited more than half a dozen books on the gulag, what was the total Kolyma death toll. One estimated it at 250,000, another at 300,000, one at 800,000, and one at 'more than 1,000,000.' FEOW. "609: Kolyma". Freshwater Ecoregions of the World. Nature Conservancy. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015 . Retrieved 25 May 2015.Kolyma ( Колыма́, IPA: [kəɫɨˈma]) or Kolyma Krai ( Колымский край) is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River and the northern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Kolyma Mountains (the watershed of the two [1]). It is bounded to the north by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and by the Sea of Okhotsk to the south. Kolyma Krai was never formally defined and over time it was split among various administrative units. As of 2023 [update], it consists roughly of the Magadan Oblast, north-eastern areas of Yakutia, and the Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. History [ edit ] Lithuanian political prisoners at the Christmas Eve table in the Kolyma region, 1955. Construction of the bridge through the Kolyma by the workers Of the Dalstroy (part of the 'Road of Bones' from Magadan to Jakutsk), 1930s.

That's how Kolyma looks today, more than half a century after Shalamov / Emil Gataullin 6. From the story A Child’s Drawings Bollinger, Martin J. (2008). Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1591140467. The indigenous peoples of this region include the Evens, Koryaks, Yupiks, Chukchis, Orochs, Chuvans and Itelmens, who traditionally lived from fishing along the Sea of Okhotsk coast or from reindeer herding in the River Kolyma valley. Shalamov, Varlam (2020). Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories. New York: New York Review Books. ISBN 9781681373676.The Lawyer’s Plot: A prisoner who used to be a law student named Andreev is accused of taking part in a conspiracy masterminded by lawyers. He is moved between several prisons and finally learns that the supposed conspiracy was the work of a single man who tried to get a lawyer friend of his pardoned from one of the camps. Once the conspiracy is uncovered, Andreev is returned to his camp, well-fed and rested.