Ghost Towns: list of the disappeared

Kolyma Hashima, Island Kayaköy, Turkey Varosha, Famagusta Sinegorye, Russian Fukushima (city), Japan Bodie, California, USA Craco, Italy Under Joseph Stalin’s rule, Kolyma became the most notorious region for the Gulag labor camps. Tens of thousands or more people may have died en route to the area or in the Kolyma’s series of gold mining, road building, lumbering, and construction camps between 1932 and 1954 It was Kolyma’s reputation that caused Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, to characterize it as the “pole of cold and cruelty“ in the Gulag system The Mask of Sorrow monument in Magadan commemorates all those who died in the Kolyma forced-labor camps and the recently dedicated Church of the Nativity remembers the victims in its icons and Stations of the Camps Hashima Island commonly called Gunkanjima is an abandoned island of Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the center of the city. It is o