Yakutia: Moma Gulag

Writes Alex Tolstyakov: "Hello, dear reader! With the permission of Michael Cheremkina, author of both beautiful and scary pictures, I write a post about one of the least known of the death camps of the Gulag. In the late 30's - early 40-ies on the orders of the NKVD of the USSR leadership upstream Moma and Kolyma was created Indigirskogo correctional labor camp (Inlag), in which the so-called "enemies of the people" unknown mined ore. Perhaps uranium, although it is not excluded that the mined gold and tungsten. "
60 photos from here





1. "Even as a child - says Michael, - I have often heard adults talk about that in our area were located death camps. And when the opportunity came, I was able to organize a photo expedition to the natural beautiful but eerie, in its content, place. "



2. On the way there are many mountain rivers and lakes



3. Lake Kuoluma night ...



4. ... and the day



5. Short rest. The most reliable SUV in Yakutia - Yakut horse.



6. On the way Mikhail companions came across the wreckage of an American A-20 bomber that crashed in 1943 while ferrying Alaska - Siberia. It took 70 years, but the US star is clearly visible.



7. Michael saw the plane, and they are considered great gray owl.



8. Landscapes Moma ulus of Yakutia indescribably beautiful.



9. In the forest Michael stumbled onto the rail.



10. Borulluolahsky camp. Buildings other than CAT, did not survive.



11. During the Soviet period reindeer taken away for firewood.



12. Machine gun tower was heated by stoves, which are made from polubochek.



13. This time, the tower destroyed.



14. A fence will stand still ...



15. Better mountains can be only mountains.



16. Damn beautiful!



17. The weather turned bad and Michael asked to take refuge with his friends to the local herders.

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18. Life.



19. Deer in bad weather too resting.



20. Well, the weather and ustakanivaetsya.



21. It is time to continue the road.



22. Ridge Cherskogo.



23. The length of the mountain range of over 1,500 km., And the highest point - Mount Victory (3003 meters).



24. It certainly does not Shalbuzdag, which I had to climb, but too high!



25. Horse riding here in any way, the horses need help.



26. Here in this valley one camp - Sugun.



27. Here, in the mountain village all made of stone - garages, workshops, cooler ...



28. Michael against the backdrop of one of the camp buildings.



29. Putting the guards, the guards built of wood. Here it is preserved even the bed of one of them.



30. cell. Concrete floors and ceilings and walls of stone. In the cooler 5 chambers, which was not provided for heating even in winter. Imagine winter at -50 Celsius ... hungry, sick people were dying like flies. The stove stood in the corridor where the guards were. "Terrible place ... we arrived at night and photographed when the camera was horrible and scary ... thought I heard moans and cries of prisoners," - writes Michael in his travel notes.



31. The only window in the corridor.



32. All the roads were built in the prisoners. Such road called "Road to the bones» (Road of bones).



33. "I can not believe that in such a place, the regime did such horrors," - said Michael.



34. Silent Witnesses ...



35. While the water ...



36. There is still one camp, which contained a woman.



37. About then still fresh wooden doors bent nails.



38. Again contradictory feelings.



39. An old brick oven in one of the barracks collapsed.



40. This building was not completed. History is now silent for some reason - either camp closed, or not enough builders survived.



41. "All mines detonated from within", - says Mikhail.



42. And the background is normal.



43. The punishment cell in the women's camp, too, was not heated.



44. The lamppost?



45. One of the PPC.



46. ​​In the barracks lived for 16 people.



47. Women are still ... hygiene first.



48. Yakutia called a prison without bars, referring here revolutionaries. Later, in the days of Stalin, the lattice is still there.



49. All. It's time to return across the Big Moma frazil (Ulakhan Taryn).



50. Frazil is year-round.



51. melts, of course, on the sly ...



52. ... but too big to melt completely.



53. So it is all summer in the sun.



54. Here and just catch a cold.



55. It is better to gorge - here and there is no wind.



56. Again, a little rest.



57. Admire views.



58. Far left.



59. The scope of ...



60. Well, that's all!

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