Day 122 BC Nzkoe-BC Perm 390/ 37.211 km
Blijf op de hoogte en volg Rudy
20 Augustus 2014 | Rusland, Perm’
We continued the road north through the Ural mountains (highest point we went over was only some 450 m) to the last used Gulag labour camp Perm 36. (Perm 35 and 34 are still used as prison camp for criminals). Perm 36 was in use from 1949 till 1988. In the early stages it was more a prison camp for criminals but after Stalin’s death in 1953 more political prisoners were sent there. In the beginning they were Stalin’s cronies but later more politically engaged intellectuals. It is interesting to note that in Lonely Planet the camp is described much more negatively than what our young guide was telling us. He even suggested that the prisoners, who got food and shelter, were possibly better off than the farmers living around the camp.
In the late afternoon we drove through Perm (city) to do our shopping and get some money. Outside town we saw a road turning back towards the river and managed to find a road in-between the villa’s under construction down to the river side. Like most rivers in Russia this one was also wide (300+ m).
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