Serpantinka GULag / SevVostLag

 memorial, camp, GULAG

According to a sources this valley was the location of the feared and infamous Serpantinka camps. It is described by several as extremely overcrowded punishment camps. Mass executions are said to have run rampant here, as well as torture, disease, starvation and crime. Not to mention the severe temperatures of this inland valley said to reach below -70 celcius.

Nearby a small granite memorial has been erected. 22. Juni 1991.

Author Varlam Sjalamov was here for a short stop when he was being tranported south from another camp by NKVD.

Precise location: Proximity.
Name: Serpantinka, Serpantinnaya, Serpentinka, Serpentina. SewWostLag, Sevvostlag.

Note: 219. SERPANTINKA (sõnast serpentiin, siuglint), kullauhtla polügoon Jagodnõi r.

Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevvostlag
www.gulag.ipvnews.org/article20060901_01.php
monderusse.revues.org/docannexe3927.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolyma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadan_Oblast
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
www.gulag.eu
www.okupatsioon.ee/trykised/oll/oll_kolyma_vang1.html
karamken.narod.ru/trassa.gif
www.gulag.memorial.de
www.sakharov-center.ru/museum/expositions/english/way-gulag