Vorkuta

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Prisoners in the Vorkuta Gulag, a major Soviet labor camp, in 1945.

From New York Times

In one city cited in the paper, Vorkuta, an estimated 80 percent of buildings had some deformations because of the changing permafrost.

From Washington Post

Kovach’s father, Ivan Kovach, met Kovachova when they were prisoners in the Vorkuta gulag in northern Russia.

From The Guardian

“But every individual has a choice in the end,” added Ms. Lasmane, who repeatedly chose to defy the Soviet authorities and, as a result, was sent three times to Soviet prison camps, including one in Vorkuta, a particularly forbidding outpost of the Gulag archipelago.

From New York Times

It would be eight years before her father was released, in 1954, and the family could make a home together in Vorkuta, Russia, near the labor camp where he had been held.

From New York Times