The abandoned city built by prisoners that became a ghost town after huge explosion
After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...
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Howard Amos: Russia Starts Here review - East meets West, via the Pskov region
Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...