Magadan Region

Magadan Region is located on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and has an extremely harsh climate. This region is best known for the Stalinist camps (popularly known as ‘Kolyma’). The prisoners, in inhuman conditions, were engaged in the extraction of precious metals and worked at construction sites. In memory of the victims of repressions in 1996, the monument ‘Mask of Sorrow’ by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was erected on Krutoy Hill.

Magadan Region is famous for its mountain ranges, a large river network (the largest river is the Kolyma), as well as permafrost, which is very common. One of the unusual natural attractions is Jack London Lake. Legend has it that the discoverers named it after the writer, because they discovered the novel ‘Martin Eden’ off its shores.