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Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov. He began working on this book in 1954 and continued until 1973. The book is considered Shalamov's magnum opus as a writer and one of the important works of Russian 20th-century literature. The collections of stories are titled Kolyma Tales, The Left Bank, The Virtuoso Shovelman, Essays on the Criminal World and Resurrection of the Larch.

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Kolyma Tales

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Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author...

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Varlam Shalamov

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which were collected and published in six volumes, collectively known as Kolyma Tales. These books were initially published in the West, in English translation...

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Kolyma

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Kolyma (Колыма́, IPA: [kəɫɨˈma]) or Kolyma Krai (Колымский край) is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River...

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Gulag

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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,...

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Chifir

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on their way to a work camp. Several characters drink chifir in The Kolyma Tales, a collection of short stories about Gulag life by former Gulag prisoner...

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Sevvostlag

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poet Boris Ruchyov, poet (1938–1947) Varlam Shalamov, author of the Kolyma Tales Thomas Sgovio, American artist, ex-Communist Vsevolod Zaderatsky, Russian...

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Butyrka prison

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in 1773–1774 Varlam Shalamov, writer and soviet dissident; wrote The Kolyma Tales Kazys Skučas, Lithuanian politician and general of the Lithuanian Army...

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Eduard Berzin

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that set up Dalstroy, which instituted a system of slave-labor camps in Kolyma, North-Eastern Siberia, one of the most brutal Gulag regions, where hundreds...

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Pevek

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International. May 25, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2020. Shalamov, V.T. Kolyma Tales, Penguin, 1994, pp. 198–199. Extracts of the story from Google Books...

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List of Russian people

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Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged Varlam Shalamov, Gulag survivor, author of Kolyma Tales Mikhail Sholokhov, Nobel Prize for Literature, author of And Quiet Flows...

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Yukaghir people

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basin of the Kolyma River. The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Yukaghirs in the Upper Kolyma region in...

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John Glad

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Vasily Aksenov New York : Random House, c1996 ISBN 978-0-679-43274-6 Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov Poems, by Nikolai Klyuev Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov...

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Pleistocene Park

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Плейстоценовый парк, romanized: Pleystotsenovyy park) is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia...

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Claude Esteban

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includes an essay on Robert Bresson and another on Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales. He had been a student of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure of...

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Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov

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internment overlapped with that of Varlam Shalamov, the Russian writer, whose Kolyma Tales depict the brutality of human nature laid bare in this remote camp of...

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Semyon Dezhnev

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Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr River on the Pacific. His exploit...

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Siberian Education

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spans didn't add up. Kolyma and Gagarin are two boys in an ethnically Siberian village in Transnistria being raised by Kolyma's grandfather Kuzja. Kuzja...

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List of Equinox episodes

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be 10 million frozen mammoths in northern Siberia, and many around the Kolyma (river); the Condover mammoth of Shropshire, found in 1986, with a model...

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Siberian Husky

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Siberia Import) Tserko (Male, 1930 Siberia Import), Tosca (Female, Harry x Kolyma) Duke (Male, also known as Chapman's Duke, reportedly Ici x Wanda) Tanta...

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List of maritime disasters in the 20th century

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from the port of Nakhodka to Magadan and delivering cargo and prisoners to Kolyma, exploded on July 24, during the loading of ammonal in Nakhodka, due to...

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Swan maiden

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refer to the Swan Maiden tales. East Asian scholarship also names this group of tales as The Legend of the Winged Robe (or Tale of the Feathered Cloak)...

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Antonina Koptiaeva

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a mining official, moved to Kolyma in 1932, where she began writing in 1935. Her first novel, Kolymskoe zoloto ("Kolyma Gold", 1936), was published under...

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Yakutian horse

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Northern type is the purest bred Yakut, and is sometimes called the Middle Kolyma or Verkhoyansk horse. It is usually bay, gray or light dun in color, with...

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Timeline of European exploration

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D'Eendracht" (Western Australia). 1644 – Mikhail Stadukhin reaches the Kolyma. 1644–47 – Ivan Pokhabov is the first to ascend the Angara to Lake Baikal...

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