Word: magadan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newlyweds gave no sign that they were troubled by the speculation. After a couple of quiet days in the Moscow Intourist hotel, they prepared to depart for a Siberian honeymoon at Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about...
Solzhenitsyn's list of major construction projects carried out by prisoners is incomplete but nonetheless staggering: at least nine entire cities (including Magadan and Vorkuta), three sea-to-sea and river-to-river canals, twelve railway lines, two highways, three huge hydroelectric stations and six centers of heavy industry...
From all indications, his trial in Talaya, near Magadan, 4,000 miles from Moscow on the Asian coast and well out of bounds of foreign newsmen, was little more than a judicial pretense. His wife, who Tass reported had been allowed to attend his trial, was in fact barred from the courtroom. She saw her husband only as he was hustled to and from court in police cars. As for the charge of compiling "fabrications," that apparently consisted of Amalrik's notes on his experience in prison...