Dalstroi Administrative Building, Dneprovsky, Kolyma

Dalstroi Administrative Building

Dneprovsky is one of the best preserved Gulag sites in the entire Russia, and thus an important unofficial memorial to the victims of the political repression in the Soviet Union. It was a mine operated by labour camp prisoners from 1930s to 1950s. In the vast wastelands of Kolyma, situated in the Russian Far East, there are hundreds & thousands of kilometres of harsh nature. All the same, NKVD and Dalstroi, a company managing the mining industry in Kolyma, succeeded to establish a chain of camps in there – with the cost of thousands of lives. From Dneprovsky one can still find mine shafts from that time, as well as watchtowers & barbed wire fences. They hang at the slopes of stony mountains, whereas at the valley one can spot scattered remains of administrative buildings , like this half-collapsed shack embraced by beautiful autumn foliage.

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