Kolyma
Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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Examples
Literature 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.
From 1788, they participated in an annual trade fair on the lower Kolyma.
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.
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.”
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.
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.