Article by Tony Halpin in The Times

Interesting article by Tony Halpin in The Times today about the "gulag" penal colony of Krasnokamensk in Siberia. Only eight paragraphs, but Tony Halpin effectively conjures up the Solzhenitsyn atmosphere of the place. Astonishing that the prison camp was constructed as recently as the 1960s.

It takes nineteen hours to get there from Moscow.



A search for Krasnokamensk on Flickr produces this grim institutional picture ominously called "The Place". No idea if this is the gulag but it looks the part. It was taken by a brilliant photographer with the kafkaesque name of Michael Z.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_z/