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The Solovki special camp (later the Solovki special prison), was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's new Bolshevik regime.
Mar 14, 2021 · During this period (1929-1931) the Solovki camp was made part of the large Karelia-Murmansk group of camps, first bearing the name of Solovetsky Correctional Labour Camp, then Solovetsky and Karelia-Murmansk Camps, and then again Solovetsky Correctional Labour Camp.
Aug 30, 2015 · SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS, Russia — Yuri Brodsky, who has dedicated his life to exposing the dark secrets of the ancient Solovetsky Monastery, pointed at a small, dirty courtyard window blocked by a...
Apr 6, 2003 · Solovki was where the structures and basic tenets of the labor-camp system began to take shape. It was at Solovki, for example, that a system was put in place of feeding prisoners according...
During first half of the 20 th century, the Solovetsky Monastery was converted into a forced labour camp, a prototype for other camps of the Gulag system that followed during the Soviet period.
May 2, 2004 · Solovki. May 2, 2004. More than half a millennium ago, a gaunt Russian monk named Savvatii stood on the shores of the White Sea, gazed toward the Arctic Circle, and, after deep contemplation,...
The labor camp slogan "Today Solovki; tomorrow all of Russia" also explains nothing. Many natural and historical phenomenon complicate matters. There are ancient labyrinths, "the military monastery", the cold White Sea with ships and boats, islands with mountains and lakes, the unique microclimate and ecology, white whale herds and bird flocks ...
