# Kolyma - The Uncut Documentary

An ultra-rare Russian-language documentary about the most notorious of the Gulag death camps in frigid north-eastern Siberia. If sent to Kolyma, you had about a 10% chance of survival, death coming quickly from exposure, illness, disease, overwork, or inmate gangs. The common expression in Russia was, "Kolyma means death!" Anything (or nothing) you did, had done, or might do would be enough to get you sent there. To quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - author of The Gulag Archipelago - on how very low the bar was to perceived "wrongdoing" in Stalinist Russia: “ Who among us has not experienced its all-encompassing embrace? In all truth, there is no step, thought, action, or lack of action under the heavens which could not be punished by the heavy hand of Article 58.” The Kolyma (pronounced koh-lee-MAH) region ( Russian : Колыма ) is located in the far north-eastern area of Russia in what is commonly known as Siberia but is actually part of the Russian Far East . It is bounded by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Sea of Okhotsk to the south. The extremely remote region gets its name from the Kolyma River and mountain range, parts of which were not discovered until 1926. Today the region consists roughly of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and the Magadan Oblast . The area, part of which is within the Arctic Circle , has a subarctic climate with very cold winters lasting up to six months of the year. Permafrost and tundra cover a large part of the region.…

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1993
- By: Mikhail Mikheev
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KolymaUncut)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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