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Kolyma |
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Kolyma (Russian) [kəliˈma] n (Placename) a river in NE Russia, rising in the Kolyma Mountains north of the Sea of Okhotsk and flowing generally north to the East Siberian Sea. Length: 2600 km (1615 miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Were it not for writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn we might never know of Soviet death camps like Magadan, Kolyma and Vorkuta. And work in the nearby Kolyma gold fields was so backbreaking thai very few survived it for more than a couple of years. Any attempt to keep a modern form of humanism afloat will, as Tzvetan Todorov wrote recently, "far from ignoring Auschwitz and Kolyma, take them as a starting point. |
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