The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

The author’s collection “Essays on the Underworld” includes stories about real Kolyma life: about people, characters, rules and laws. Varlam Shalamov present...

“This is a strange story, so strange that it cannot be understood by anyone who has not been to the camp, who does not know the dark depths of the criminal w...

“When I graduated from paramedic courses and began working in a hospital, the main camp question - to live or not to live - was removed and it was clear that...

“I began my independent paramedic work for the first time, accepting a paramedic station, where doctors could only be visiting, - in Adygalakh, from the Road...

“Lesha Chekanov, a hereditary grain grower, a construction technician by training, was my neighbor in the bunks of the 69th cell of the Butyrka prison in the...

“We agreed: if they are sent to the special camp “Berlag”, all three will commit suicide, they will not go to this numbered world. A common camp mistake. Eac...

“The golden season is short. There is a lot of gold - but how to get it. The gold rush of the Klondike, the overseas neighbor of Chukotka, could raise the li...