Perm-36, also known as ITK-6, is the only intact facility remaining in Russia from the Soviet-era gulag system of political prisons and labor camps. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Perm-36 was ...

Visitors to the Perm-36 museum in the Urals can stroll through a well-preserved prison camp of the Gulag system established by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. But despite the authenticity of the site, the ...

PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests of Western Siberia is under new management -- and it's easy to feel the difference when touring the new team's recently opened first exhibition.

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Among these, the ‘Perm Triangle’, comprising the three most notorious camps, Perm-35, -36 and -37, held many famous dissidents from 1972 to 1988, including Natan Sharansky, Sergei Kovalyov, Balys ...

The rights group that ran Russia's only museum in a former gulag said Tuesday it has been ousted and the institution will cease as a memorial devoted to Soviet-era repression. The Perm-36 museum -- ...

The word gulag sends shivers down the spine of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived under Stalinist terror. Soviet history is ragged with deportations, forced ...

MUSKEGON TWP. -- A square area that represents the cell space a captive would have to live out their life in a Russian forced-labor camp has been set up in Muskegon Community College's Hendrik Meijer ...

Russia's Perm-36 museum issued a statement Monday that it is "ceasing its activities and beginning the process of self-liquidation" following months of the government pressuring the museum to close.

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MOSCOW (AP) — An independent Russian organization says it has been ousted from the Gulag prison camp museum that it has run from 1992, leaving “no talk of Stalin.” Viktor Shmyrov, director for the ...