Droga z Kości w Rosji - NYT [27]

Preparations for an ice-carving festival in Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's Far East region and one terminus of the Kolyma Highway, Dec. 2, 2019. For...

Frozen fish for sale at a market in Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's Far East region and one terminus of the Kolyma Highway, Dec. 1, 2019. For many Ru...

Antonina Novosad, 93, holds a photograph from her decade spent in a gulag in Russia's Far East, in Magadan, Russia, Nov. 29, 2019. She said she bears...

Antonina Novosad, 93, who was arrested as a teenager and spent 10 years in a gulag in Russia's Far East, in Magadan, Russia, Nov. 29, 2019. She said s...

The remote settlement of Yagodnoye, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Nov. 25, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of Stalin's gulags have...

Girls sing together at a school in Yagodnoye, a settlement on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Nov. 25, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors o...

Candles are lit before a service at a Russian Orthodox church in Yagodnoye, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Nov. 24, 2019. For many Russia...

A lone truck traverses the Kolyma Highway, the notorious 'road of bones' in Russia's Far East, Nov. 23, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of Stalin...

Natalia Shevchuk and her gravely ill husband, Valeri, two of the last inhabitants of the dying settlement of Atka, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's F...

A museum guide shows a painting of Stalin-era gulag laborers arriving by sea to Magadan, a small port town in Russia's Far East and one terminus of th...

Snow fills what was once an isolation cell at a Stalin-era gulag along the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Nov. 17, 2019. For many Russians, the...

The barbed-era remains of a Stalin-era gulag along the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Nov. 17, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of Stalin's...

Attendees at a ceremony memorializing the gulag workers who built the long 'road of bones' highway through Russia's Far East, in Magadan, Russia, Oct....

A ceremony at the "The Mask of Sorrow" monument, memorializing the gulag workers who built the long 'road of bones' highway through Russia's Far East,...

Elderly ladies mark the 101st birthday of Komsomol, the Soviet-era political youth organization, at Communist Party headquarters in Magadan, Russia, O...

A Soviet-era monument in Myaundzha, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 18 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of Stalin's gulags have b...

A woman feeds pigeons by a skating rink in Ust-Nera, a town on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 20 2019. For many Russians, the horrors o...

An empty building, one of many in the abandoned coal-mining town of Kadykchan, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 18 2019. For many Russ...

A man uses the swimming pool of a Soviet-era sports complex for power plant workers in Myaundzha, on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 18...

Mikhail Shibisty visits a prisoners' graveyard on the site of a former gulag he now operates as a museum of sorts in Susuman, Russia, Oct. 17, 2019. F...

Saleswomen smoke outside a shop in Yagodnoye, a settlement on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 16, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors o...

Laundry hangs outside housing blocks in Debin, a settlement on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 13, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors...

A worker operates sieves at a gold mine near Debin, a settlement on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 13, 2019. For many Russians, the hor...

An empty stretch of the Kolyma Highway, the notorious 'road of bones' in Russia's Far East, Oct. 12, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of Stalin's...

A Russian-made Lada drives along the Kolyma Highway, the notorious 'road of bones' in Russia's Far East, Oct. 12, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors...

A Soviet-era monument to Lenin in Ust-Omchug, a settlement on the Kolyma Highway in Russia's Far East, Oct. 9, 2019. For many Russians, the horrors of...

The endless mountain terrain of Russia's Far East near Magadan, home to the Kolyma Highway, also known as the 'road of bones', Oct. 7, 2019. For many...