Russian Gulags: Then and Now [PICS]

The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. "Gulag" is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies.

To mark Solzhenitsyn’s passing — he died yesterday at the age of 89 — we’re taking a look at Gulags as they were, and given our penchant for the creepy and the abandoned, how some of them remain today, moldering in the remote wilds of Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan.

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