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N.p., 1933-1939.62 photos: 8vo landscape (3 photos), 16mo landscape (2 photos), 32mo (7 photos), 32mo landscape (42 photos), 48mo landscape (4 photos), 64mo landscape (4 photos).Due to the Great Depression in the West in the early 1930s, the ratio of gold prices to industrial equipment was unusually favorable in order to buy machines and equipment that was necessary for Soviet Russia, which had begun industrialization. Dalstroy (Far North Construction Trust) was created in 1931 by the OGPU (predecessor of the NKVD) in order to manage road construction, the mining of gold, exploration and production of other strategically important minerals in the Magadan-Chukotka region of the north of Russian Far East (Kolyma). Work in extreme northern conditions was carried out by civilians employed by Dalstroy as labor force and prisoners from various forced labor camps (near 80 Gulag camps) scattered across a vast territory subordinate to the trust.
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