GULAG

Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.

Beijing proposes tours to neighbouring Khabarovsk region which wind the clock back to the Communist era.

Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.

The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.

Countless political prisoners perished here cut off from the world - but today Kolyma finally is getting connected.