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Kolyma stories

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Kolyma stories
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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982) - Russian Soviet prose writer and poet was born in Vologda in the family of a priest. He received a good home education, graduated from gymnasium, labor school. But he did not want to follow in his father's footsteps, moved to Moscow, where he worked as a tanner at the Kuntsevo tannery, and later was admitted to the Moscow University, Faculty of Soviet Law. In the capital, he attended literary circles and went to poetry evenings. Twice Shalamov was arrested and exiled first (1929-1931) to the Vishersky camp in the Perm region, where he built the Berezniki chemical plant, and then to Kolyma (1937-1951) to the northeastern camp, where he worked as a gold miner, logger, digger, and coal miner. Later, after graduating from paramedic courses, Shalamov worked as a paramedic in the Far East. Inhuman-hard labor and conditions of camp life, which fell to the share of a generation, formed the basis of a series of stories and essays Shalamov "Kolyma Stories", telling about the life of prisoners of Soviet labor camps in the 1930-1950-ies. "Kolyma Stories", on which V. Shalamov began working immediately after returning from Stalin's camps and worked for almost twenty years, from 1954 to 1973, - a stunning artistic and documentary testimony about one of the most terrible tragedies of the twentieth century.
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