Ачаирский монастырь, Омск / Atchair Monastery, Omsk
Channel: eclecticom: Travels around the world and more
Date: 2020-11-06

מנזר אצ'איר (Achair) על גדות הנהר אירטיש (Irtish ), הפך בשנת 1930 לגולאג מספר 8 אחד ממחנות הריכוז המפחידים ביותר ברוסיה כולה, ומקום מותם של למעלה 200,000 אסירים.

In the 30s of the past century the convent was closed and its territory became a part of GULAG (no.8). About 200 thousands prisoners died there of hunger, cold and hard labor. In several days after Stalin's death in 1953 GULAG had been disbanded and all cathedrals exploded.

Starting in Mongolia and travelling with the Trans-Siberian railway, Omsk was one of our stops. We were 8 women from Israel and we travelled almost a month. We were in Irkutsk, Baikal, Ulan Ude, Ust-Barguzin, Kazan... A "once -in-a-lifetime" journey. Krasnoyarsk and Stolby Pillars, Yekatrinburg and Ural mountains, Kazan capital of Tatarstan and last stop Moscow.