Tomasz Kizny: I came to Vorkuta in May 1990, probably as one of the first foreigners to reach these regions of the USSR. At least, I was the first who came here voluntarily, because earlier Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Germans and citizens of other nations of the USSR had been sent to Vorkutlag camps. I came voluntarily but illegally because I had been denied permission to enter the Vorkuta area that was then required of foreigners. However, I decided to go…
Read the text in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/workutlag/
Tomasz Kizny is a photographer and journalist, author (with Dominique Roynette) of a photo album entitled Gulag, Warszawa 2015
