Nazino island

Russia / Tomsk / Strezhevoy /

island, interesting place, GULAG, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia)

The Nazino affair was the deportation and mass death of about 4,000 people on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in 1933. The small, isolated Western Siberian island is located about 800 km north of Tomsk, in Alexandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast near the confluence of the Ob and Nazina Rivers. It is called "Dead Island" or "Cannibal Island" because about 4,000 out of 6,000 Soviet "special settlers" died there during the summer of 1933, after being abandoned with only flour for food, and little clothing or shelter.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_affair

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Coordinates: 60°6'26"N 78°56'1"E