Survivors Stats  | Russia’s Island of Death | Nazino Tragedy
Channel: Miasma Reading
Date: 14/02/2024

The tragedy on Nazino Island would finally end in early June after 13 weeks. Out of the 6,200+ prisoners who were shipped to the island, only about 2,200 people survived. However, only 200-300 people were physically capable of working. 157 people, who could not move, were left on the island. Thousands, who were on the island, died from the elements, diseases, starvation, murders, and accidents.

Most of the survivors were transferred to other forced settlements. They would die of typhus, or other diseases, or refuse to work in the labor camps due to their past experience.

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The Nazino Tragedy started as a proposal, created by USSR officials, to rehome people who were presumed to be rebels into forced settlements or agricultural prisons. However, Approximately 7,000 prisoners soon found themselves abandoned on a remote Siberian island with scarce food, no tools or shelters, fighting for survival. Eventually, some resorted to cannibalism as a means to survive.


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