May in Magadan

Russian Far East

Heroic figures look down from the facade of a theater in Magadan, a city of 150,000 in the Russian Far East. At right, kiosks on a street near the center of the city. Magadan was the administrative center for Siberian gulags, and was a closed city until the late 1980s. A boy speeds around Lenin Square in his go-kart during a Sunday afternoon rally. Magadan, a port city on the Sea of Okhotsk, is wintry still in mid-May. A window today, windows from the past An apartment kitchen window overlooks a bus stop on a day when a hint of snow is in the air. A collection of windows and barbed wire from a labor camp is artfully displayed in the city's gulag museum. Photos © 1995 by Larry Pearson, all rights reserved Meet some of the People of Magadan. (There are eight pictures on this page, totalling 180K.) Step into Spring in Khabarovsk, one of the largest cities in the Russian Far East. For other photo perspectives of the Russian Far East, visit Mikhail Soutchanski's All Regions of Russia by Pictures You can also visit other Russian Cities on the Web and Russian Communities on the Net The Russian Far East Home Page Page design by