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  Kolyma - King's Quest Omnipedia - a Wikia wiki
Kolyma is the continent that Graham traveled to in order to find Valanice, his queen.
The surface of Kolyma is larger in KQ2 than it is in the remake.
In this version of Kolyma the undead while still ruling western Kolyma are not dangerous, in fact they are benevolent rulers of the land.
kingsquest.wikia.com /wiki/Kolyma   (624 words)

  
 Kolyma - MSN Encarta
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...
The Kolyma River (Russian : Колыма́) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast...
It rises in the Kolyma Range and flows in a northern, then a northeastern direction for 1,786 km (1,110 mi) to the Arctic Ocean.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567130/Kolyma.html   (179 words)

  
 Kolyma
Kolyma became the treasure chest of the Soviet Union.
Sergei's concession isn't far from Susuman, the town at the heart of Kolyma where 15,000 people live in broken-down blocks of flats, each painted with huge mural exhorting the residents to complete the development of the workers' paradise.
She was transported to Kolyma and put to work in the tin mine at Butugytshak.
members.lycos.nl /gjacobs/test/artikelen/engelskolyma.html   (3516 words)

  
 Kolyma River – FREE Kolyma River Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find Kolyma River Research
Rising in the Kolyma Mountains and emptying in the East Siberian Sea, it is 1,323 mi (2,129 km) long.
Under Joseph Stalin the goldfields of the upper Kolyma River valley held labour camps where more than one million prisoners died (1932–54).
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the lower reaches of the Kolyma, a tributary of the Lena River.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-369355.html   (1135 words)

  
 Kolyma – FREE Kolyma Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
Kolyma, river, c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) long, rising in several headstreams in the Kolyma and Cherskogo ranges, Russian Far East.
The Kolyma Range (or Gyda Range), E of the Kolyma River, extends NE from Magadan and rises to c.6,000 ft (1,830 m).
She was imprisoned in the Gulag camp at Kolyma for the next eighteen years.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Kolyma.html   (1045 words)

  
 14.1 - Kolyma - Off to the Unknown - Stalin's Notorious Prison Camps in Siberia
The prisoners - road workers of the Kolyma camps - built the first roads between Magadan and the inner regions of the taiga [Taiga is a general term indicating an ecological region characterized by coniferous forests.
For this reason, masses of prisoners were brought to Kolyma to construct roads through the dense taiga forests, the boulders and swamps, rivers and canyons.
During the last half of March 1940, when the days in Kolyma were becoming relatively longer and skies brighter, all the laborers of the construction station were assigned to clear the roads for the entire length of the mountain pass.
www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai141_folder/141_articles/141_kolyma.html   (13174 words)

  
 Why Auschwitz? Why Kolyma? Why Kosovo?
As all losses were routinely offset by the steady influx of new arrivals, the overall headcount increased from 90.700 in Jan. 1938 to 138.200 in Jan. 1939.
Owing to the override on the "admissible mortality rate" amongst the camp inmates in conjunction with the failure to meet the mining output quotas for gold and other mineral resources, Pavlov and Garanin were sacked from their posts; Garanin was also charged with espionage and subsequently shot.
Mass releases of the camp inmates commence and the Kolyma camps are gradually closed down.
www.3pytania.pl /english/calendar.html   (3386 words)

  
 Kolyma - The Road of Death
The Kolyma road known as the "Road of Bones" for all the men that died along the road.
The Kolyma road was built by the hands of Stalin’s prisoners that had been banished to this cold region.
During the communist days the prisoners were sent to the camps of Kolyma to mine the gold by hand.
www.missionreporter.org /road_of_death.htm   (779 words)

  
 Gazette | First Person: Essays (July|Aug04)
The backdrop of a deserted Belichan village in the distance—its caved-in roofs and burned-out windows—and the smoke from forest fires crawling in from the surrounding hills gave the panorama an eerie appearance of a battlefield.
A battle raged for Kolyma gold, and it was still too early to tell the winners from the losers.
In Kolyma alone, 270 licenses have been given to prospector cooperatives, or artels, as they are known in Russia, but only 180 of them have survived to deliver gold to a local refinery.
www.upenn.edu /gazette/0704/0704elsewhere.html   (1846 words)

  
 Kolyma
From there he was transported to Kolyma, having received a sentence of ten plus four years hard labour (ten years as a prisoner plus four years as a free worker).
Outside the huts of Kolyma a terrible winter set in, but inside it was pleasantly warm and the food was plentiful, a dinner consisted of two courses!
This was his second winter in Kolyma and he lost hope of ever seeing his wife, his little daughter and his second child.
www.gulag.hu /nawalicki2.htm   (4544 words)

  
 gulags.html
Kolyma was one of the deadliest, if not the deadliest network of labor camps.
In addition to the environmental rigors of life in a place like Kolyma, the conditions of those living in the camps made harder an already difficult life.
Kolyma was a region comprised of about 120 full scale camps, 80 of which were dedicated to mining.
s98.middlebury.edu /RU152A/STUDENTS/Shalamov/gulags.html   (989 words)

  
 White Auschwitz of Kolyma
That segment was the forbidding land of Kolyma, the burial grounds of Stalin's political victims.
And on the other side of this grim balance, some 580 Poles who survived the ordeal, that is an infinitesimal value which weighs nothing on the scale of wartime history.
Where open spaces were limitless, the air was as clean as the mountain stream and precious gold was waiting to be picked up in picturesque valleys.
www.najmici.net /kolyma/auschwitz1.htm   (1433 words)

  
 Kolyma
I Kolyma er der ned til –60 grader om vinteren og op til +40 grader om sommeren.
I 1956/57 stopper rædslerne i deres mest umenneskelige form, da Krustjov overtager magten.
I 60’erne og 70’erne gjore Breznjev Kolyma til Komsomalprojekt.
www.siberia.dk /OldPages/1997/kolyma.htm   (557 words)

  
 Kolyma
Karol's experiences in Kolyma hospital came back to him very vivedly on one day in particular when I brought him his morning mug of hot milk.
Although visiting Kolyma was unrealistic and just a dream, Karol could never forget the inhuman land, especially in the last years of his life, for he could not break free from his memories, particularly when he was depressed.
Kolyma and all its horrors was now a part of our life.
www.gulag.hu /nawalicki3.htm   (3432 words)

  
 homepage of Vladimir Dinets-Kolyma Highway
The main access route is the so-called Kolymsky Trakt (Kolyma Highway) - a dirt road from Magadan city on the Sea of Okhotsk to the infamous gold mines in Kolyma River valley and surrounding mountains.
The territory north from Kolyma Highway is mostly mountains.
The maze of small lakes and willow-covered lowland tundra west of Kolyma is known as the main breeding area of Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus) and Ross' gull (Larus roseus).
dinets.travel.ru /kolyma.htm   (2685 words)

  
 Kolyma Range definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Kolyma Range definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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Ko·ly·ma Range [ kə lmə ràynj ] mountain range in northeastern Siberian Russia.
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 Amazon.com: Kolyma: Mikhail Mikheev: Video
Kolyma answers with a resounding "yes." Exploring the legendary Siberian prison camp through interviews with survivors, vintage films and photos, and modern footage of the abandoned camp, this powerful, award-winning documentary shows how the Soviets used terror to maintain their power for most of this century.
Unbelievable torture and degradations were endured daily by the 2 million men and women who died at the camp and the luckier ones who lived; you hear accounts of random executions, rapes, starvation, exposure to the Arctic temperature, and more.
Sadly, many of those imprisoned at the Kolyma camp were guilty only of falling victim to the Communist paranoia of the times.
www.amazon.com /Kolyma-Mikhail-Mikheev/dp/B00000K3B5   (653 words)

  
 magadan
Magadan oblast is an area in northeastern Russia, better known as 'the Kolyma', after the largest river flowing through the area.
Especially in the Stalin era millions of forced laborers where brought to the Kolyma to extract the gold from the rivers and the rocks.
Canyonskoye is a tin deposit in the Kolyma.
maurice.strahlen.org /Magadan/magadan.htm   (1413 words)

  
  KOLYMA: The Land of Gold and Death by Stanley J. Kowalski   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I am one of the millions of slave laborers who were part of Kolyma's tragic past, and who, like so many nameless others, were slated to become historical dust and pass into oblivion in the Great Soviet Plan.
Kolyma, The Russian Tragedy, by Jens Alstrup (in Danish).
KOLYMA, the documentary film, winner of the Berlin Documentary Film Festival and the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival, Artistic License, Inc, 1997.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/kolyma10.htm   (489 words)

  
 Trekking World Tours - Kolyma - Tour R03 - The Even path
The Rassokha river is a left tributary of the Yasachnaja river, and this at the same time flows into the kolyma river, the ice-cap melts at the end of May and freezes half way through October.
After about 10 km you enter into a canyon where the water is not quite so calm, you can also see waves up to 1,50 mt high for distances of 15 km, so we ask you to wear good clothing for the rain.
Going down the Yaksha river to the mouth you enter into the Rassokha river, which flows into the kolyma river, once you have arrived here finally the water will be much calmer.
www.trekkingworld.com /kolyma3_en.htm   (871 words)

  
 Tales of Eastern Siberia: III. Kolyma Tales: 16. Tale of a Shaman
The Kolyma head man, seeing her condition said to the tribute chief, "Have no care about my dinner, I will go elsewhere." The tribute chief answered, "You were my guest in times of good fortune.
Your Kolyma country is renowned for its shamans and magicians; and you too, come from a country far distant, and you select your assistant from the whole community without doubt with great care.
Told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, in the village of the Pokhotsk, in the Kolyma country, summer of 1896.
www.sacred-texts.com /asia/tes/tes38.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, The Gulag Fleet, And the Role of the West
Published in 2003, Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, The Gulag Fleet, And the Role of the West unearths the role of the Gulag Fleet in operating one of Siberia's most infamous forced-labor camps.
Thousands of prisoners died during these journeys, and hundreds of thousands perished in the harsh weather conditions in Kolyma before completing their sentences.
The book Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West details this tragic tale using both Soviet and U.S. archival records, supplemented with first-hand testimony from those involved in the operation.
www.boozallen.com /publications/article/658073   (292 words)

  
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Sampling began on the Yukon River and then progressed to the Mackenzie, Ob', Yenisey, Lena, and Kolyma rivers.
Scott Hayden and Sergei Davidov on the Kolyma River.
Jim McClelland in the Kolyma River laboratory at the Northeast Science Station.
ecosystems.mbl.edu /partners/kolyma.html   (81 words)

  
 Gulag — Infoplease.com
Gulag deaths of both political prisoners and common criminals from overwork, starvation, and other forms of maltreatment are estimated to have been in the millions during Stalin's years in power.
Perhaps the best known of the Gulag camp complexes was Kolyma, an area in the Far East about six times the size of France that contained more than 100 camps.
Kolyma - Kolyma Kolyma, river, c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) long, rising in several headstreams in the Kolyma and...
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 Kolyma
Rivers of the Kolyma Mountains are crystal clear, cold and wild.
Despite their unstable flow and sediments, lack of nutrients, and low temperatures, these rivers support a diverse flora of diatoms and other algae.
This is ultraoligotrophic glacial lake near Aborigen Mountain, highest point of the Kolyma Mountains.
www.ansp.org /~potapova/kolyma.htm   (146 words)

  
 Tales of Eastern Siberia: III. Kolyma Tales: 1. One-Side
Told by Katherine Rumiantzer, a Russianized Yukaghir woman, in the village of Pokhotsk, in the Kolyma country, in the summer of 1896.
The people living along the Kolyma were chiefly Yukaghir; and along the seacoast, also the little known Ca'ačet and Shelags.
At the present time, among the Russian creoles and the Russianized natives on the Kolyma, several type of houses are in use; but the ancient type of house cannot be ascertained, because of the preponderant influence of the Russian log cabin with its wooden chimney of so-called "Yakut" type.--W. Next: 2.
www.sacred-texts.com /asia/tes/tes22.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Kolyma | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
This is an article about the region commonly known as Kolyma.
For river it is named after, see Kolyma River The Kolyma (pronounced koh-lee-MAH) region is located in the far northeastern area of Russia in what is commonly known as Siberia but is actually part of the Russian Far East.
The extremely remote region gets its name from the Kolyma River and mountain range, parts of which were not discovered until 1926.
www.babylon.com /definition/Kolyma   (240 words)

  
 The Kolyma - Siberia's river of life | Video | Reuters.com
The Kolyma - Siberia's river of life
The Kolyma was a River of Death for many prisoners of Joseph Stalin's Gulag empire.
Today the Kolyma is the lifeline for people living in this forgotten area inside the Arctic Circle.
www.reuters.com /news/video/videoStory?videoId=66766&feedType=RSS   (193 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Kolyma - RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - Rock / Experimental - www.myspace.com/kolyma
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So what can i say thats cool/witty[nothing], but you guys are the best Death Jazz or whatever band since the days of Stillborn Christians/Egg or Blue chair or whoever.
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 KOLYMA: The Land of Gold and Death by Stanley J. Kowalski
This vast piece of Arctic and sub-Arctic territory, with its undefined political and geographical borders, was located in the furthest North-East corner of Siberia.
Kolyma differed from the remaining Asian land mass in so many ways that it could be considered, metaphorically at least, as an entity unto itself.
The remoteness and isolation, the severity of the climate, and the harsh living conditions made this frozen hell stand apart from the rest of Siberia.
www.aerobiologicalengineering.com /wxk116/sjk/kolyma.html   (156 words)

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