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Solovetsky Islands: A journey into Russian history (PHOTOS)

Russia Beyond (Photo: Visem (CC BY-SA 3.0))

The gruesome Gulag mosquito punishment

NKVD Memorial Museum of Political Repression History; Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya/gulag.su

This woman survived the Gulag & DREW her harrowing experience (PICS)

Russia Beyond (Photo: Archive photo)

The most famous escapes from the Gulag

Russia Beyond (Ilya Buyanovsky; From the personal archive of Olga Vladimirovna Okudzhava)

How the USSR created a Gulag for women & children of ‘traitors to the homeland’

Russia Beyond (Photo collage: Gleb Panfilov/Rossiya 1 TV chanell; TASS)

How Christmas and New Year's were celebrated in the Gulag

Russia Beyond (Bessmertny Barak; Detgiz, 1958)

How an adventure novel saved the life of a writer in the Gulag

Russia Beyond (Photo: Legion Media; Gerald Praschl (CC BY-SA 3.0); Rolf Mahrenholz/Ullstein bild/Getty Images)

How the actor from the cult horror movie ‘Nosferatu’ turned into a scary villain in real life