Artists transform an abandoned Stalin-era Russian gulag by painting murals of its lost residents on the walls of the ghost town’s crumbling buildings

Artists have tried to breathe new life into a ghost town built on Stalin’s orders in Siberia.

The spooky Gulag outpost of Kadykchan was officially closed after the fall of the Soviet Union and a coal mine explosion in 1996 which killed six.

Now it has been repopulated by pictures of its lost residents in a project by designers from two art studios from Yakutsk…

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