Dikson Island
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Dikson Island, initially Dickson, is an island in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, situated in the Kara Sea near the mouth of the Yenisei River. A nearby urban-type settl
Fiftieth anniversary of the urban-type settlement of Dikson. USSR stamp, 1965
Operation Priboi
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Operation Priboi was the code name for the biggest illegal Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March deportation. More than 90,000 Estonian
Dikson Island
…by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer in August 1942 during Operation Wunderland. Dikson Island was one of the transfer destinations for 1949 March deportation from Latvia. Dikson has an arctic tundra climate (Köppen climate classification ET) — yet interestingly, it has four almost equally-divided "seasons…
Freight train cars used to transport deportees (on display in Naujoji Vilnia)
Estonian deportees in Siberia – 28% of deportees were children under the age of 16
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