Proper noun
An area in the far north-eastern region of Russia; location of Stalinist slave labour camps in the 1930s to 1950s.
A river in the far north-eastern area of Russia.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgLiterature Many eyewitness accounts of Gulag prisoners have been published: * Varlam Shalamov 's Kolyma Tales is a short-story collection, cited by most major works on the Gulag, and widely considered one of the main Soviet accounts. Source: Internet
From 1788, they participated in an annual trade fair on the lower Kolyma. Source: Internet
In order to reach Oymyakon - Russian Far East, 1,000km from Yakutsk, we crossed Kolyma Highway, which is also known as the Road of Bones, constructed from 1932-53. Source: Internet
The Kolyma River shows how “water smoked swirls of cold vapor — pillars of white steam stood here and there across the horizon like umbilical cords between heaven and earth.” Source: Internet
The sky was lucid blue but for a thin mist that hovered above the Kolyma River, which slithered, through a mix of evergreens and scrub, all the way to the horizon. Source: Internet
The same is true of other river systems, including the Pechora and the Northern Dvina in Europe and the Kolyma and the Indigirka in Siberia. Source: Internet