Former Gulag camps in Russia

11/20/2016 10:50:48 AM

Perm-36 near Perm West of the ural mountains claim to be the only open to the public GULAG (Museum). There are different reoprts on the internet that it has been shut down but I have visited there in Summer 2016. It was worth the visit.

When traveling the Area you can find many aktive Prison camps. For example see here, last photo.

2/9/2014 10:28:54 PM

Not exactly in Russia (but still closer to Moscow than Magadan), I visited ALZHIR gulag near Astana in Kazakhstan a few years ago. It is more a memorial than a real “camp” as you might imagine it. I had a picture of one of these labor camps in my mind, it doesn’t look like this. If you drive around you can still see some old Kolkhozs where people are still living, and they still have these soviet signs. Basically it is a vast area where the people (mainly women and children) were held in huts and worked in the fields.

ALZHIR camp near Astana

3/23/2013 3:09:03 PM

in my opinion, the fullest information and addresses of museums, you can find here:

2/9/2014 11:05:25 PM

Given how many camps there were you could be sure to find a few:

I am sure there are a few more that I haven’t found.

Additional Info

You can also visit one of the first and the largest labor camp open in the 1920s which is now again a Monastery. Соловецкий Лагерь Особенного Назначения (СЛОН) was closed in 1933.

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