The Kolyma Tales, on which Shalamov began working immediately upon his return from the Stalinist camps and worked for eight years, from 1954 to 1962, is a stunning and terrifying documentary evidence of the tragedy of Gulag prisoners, first published in its entirety in the UK in 1978 year, and in our country only 10 years later.“Planet Kolyma” is a world in front of which Dante’s “Hell” looks like an innocent joke.There is no way out from there. There is no hope. There is nothing but everyday, familiar horror.How did people survive there? hardened criminals, and the life of a person is not worth even a bread ration, it shocks, shocks - and forever cuts into the memory of the reader.