Siberia as a monument to human tragedy and the ... extend far beyond the Trans-Siberian route to the north. After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Soviet authorities suspended this project and ...

Authorities in Russia’s Altai region arrested the founder of a Siberian cultural center dedicated to Soviet dictator Josef ...

Stalin was keen to exploit the region's mineral ... silence settled upon Kadykchan - today the largest ghost town in Siberia. A walk through the abandoned town offers such apocalyptic sights ...

Yet the Bolshevik coup that Lenin led in 1917 ushered in the river’s most tragic era, when Joseph Stalin dispatched millions to hard labor and death in Siberia. Countless barges carried inmates ...

TASS/. The Russky Dukh (or Russian Spirit) public organization and the administration of the city of Surgut, Western Siberia, have struck an agreement on installing a bust of Joseph Stalin ...

A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment cell for prisoners A guard’s watchtower in autumn forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on Aug. 23, 1945, ordered Japanese captives to be interned in Siberia, where conditions were extremely harsh. Japan surrendered in World War II on Aug. 15 of that year.

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...