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Narym special settlements (1930–33)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Narym”

1930–1933 — Narym’s marshy taiga in western Siberia became a destination for tens of thousands of deported families, sent there as “special settlers”. In May 1933, about 6,000 newly deported people were left on Nazino island without food or shelter. Within weeks most had died or vanished.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Collectivisation in the USSR (chapter 2 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Narym special settlements (1930–33), site of memory in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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