Vorkuta |
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| Author:
| Surhone, Lambert M. |
| Editor:
| Surhone, Lambert M.
Timpledon, Miriam T.
Marseken, Susan F. |
| ISBN: | 978-613-1-15791-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Publisher: | AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vorkuta (Russian: ?; Komi: ?, V rkuta; Nenets for Place teems with bears) is a coal mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin at the Usa river. As of 2002[update], its population was 84,917. It had its origin in one of the more notorious forced labour camps of the Gulag which was established in...
More DescriptionPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vorkuta (Russian: ?; Komi: ?, V rkuta; Nenets for Place teems with bears) is a coal mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin at the Usa river. As of 2002[update], its population was 84,917. It had its origin in one of the more notorious forced labour camps of the Gulag which was established in 1932. It was at Vorkuta, in 1937, that the Stalinist regime in the 1930s liquidated the Trotskyist Left Opposition.