Google Maps users have made a mysterious discovery in the Siberian tundra of Russia. Some buildings and piles of brown rubble are visible in the pictures of the map. A person has given information about this picture on Google’s page.
Google Map has become the need of everyone nowadays. Wherever you want to go, or find out about any place, it is easily known through Google Map. Meanwhile, Google Map users have made deep searches in the Siberian tundra of Russia. Images on the map show piles of buildings and brown rubble.
Found labor camp
According to a report published in the Daily Star, a person on the Reddit page of Google Maps gave information about this mysterious site. Giving information, he wrote on the page that this is actually a Norilag labor camp. In this you can also see the mining facility attached to the camp on the west side.
prisoners were kept
Norilg was a Norilsk labor camp, one of the horror camps in Russia. This camp was operated from 25 June 1935 to 22 August 1956. Prisoners were kept here, who worked for the Russian Mining and Norilsk Nickel Company.
Work done during Stalin’s time
However, over time these workers were used for other works including fishing. He also got a house rebuilt for the dictator Joseph Stalin there.
There were thousands of prisoners at the site
The site had only 1,200 prisoners in 1935, but the number of prisoners increased significantly as part of Stalin’s campaign to drive out political rivals and dissidents that began in 1936. By 1937, the number of prisoners here had increased to 9,000. By 1951, 72,500 people were housed there in 30 different camps.
was closed after the rebellion
According to the human rights group Memorial, a total of 400,000 people lived in Norillag. Commenting on the picture of Google Map, a person wrote that this is one of the most depressing places, which I have rarely seen. The site shares the feelings of the prisoners that followed Stalin’s death in 1953, which became known as the Norilsk Rebellion. The rebellion lasted for 69 days and killed nearly 1,000 out of 16,378. This camp was closed in 1957.
