Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northeast Russia rising in the Kolyma Mountains and flowing about 2,150 km (1,335 mi) generally north and northeast to the East Siberian Sea. Its upper course crosses rich gold fields.
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- proper noun An area in the far north-eastern area of
Russia , location ofStalinist death camps in 1930's to 1950's - proper noun A river in the far north-eastern area of
Russia
Etymologies
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Examples
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The discoverer of gold in Kolyma, Y.A. Bilibin, loved the works of Jack London.
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At one prison camp called Kolyma google it up up to 3,000,000 people were exterminated and there were over 150 camps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Ron Norman: “At one prison camp called Kolyma google it up up to 3,000,000 people were exterminated”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Ron Norman: “At one prison camp called Kolyma google it up up to 3,000,000 people were exterminated”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Ron Norman: “At one prison camp called Kolyma google it up up to 3,000,000 people were exterminated”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Mr. Golomstock's father was sent to the camps in 1934, and then, some years later, his mother, taking the young Igor with her, signed up to work as a doctor at Kolyma, one of the worst of the Gulag's outposts.
Masters of the Dark Arts Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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"Kolyma Tales" derives its name from the region in Russia's far northeast that played host to a vast forced labor complex, in which hundreds of thousands at least perished.
A World Behind Barbed Wire Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma.
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Some time in 1938, the exact date is not known, he died at the Vladivostok transit camp on his way to the even more notorious camp at Kolyma.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Some time in 1938, the exact date is not known, he died at the Vladivostok transit camp on his way to the even more notorious camp at Kolyma.
News at Eleven: This presumption became second nature Rus Bowden 2009
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