Eerie Russian camp found on Google Maps where thousands of prisoners were sent to die

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Google Maps can be a treasure trove of fascinating things you wouldn’t otherwise ever get to see.Sometimes they can be beautiful, sometimes shocking and sometimes very sad.In the case of a find in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region in Russia, the last option on that list applies.

Internet users have labelled the camp "the most depressing place ever”, the Independent reports and rightly so as it likely saw hundreds of thousands of people sent there to live, work and possibly die in some of the grimmest conditions possible.

Taking to Reddit, a user posted the coordinates for the grim find as 69°24’19°N 87°38’57°E, showing the ruins of the chilling set-up and sparking a conversation on the platform's comment board.

The find is a work camp - a Soviet-era labour and corrections facility believed to have been set up during the era of former Communist Party leader Joseph Stalin.These kinds of camps were often called gulags and were notorious for their tough working and living conditions.This particular camp, believed to be The Norillag, Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp, is reported to have been active from June 25, 1935, all the way until August 22, 1956.The camps were at the forefront of many of the brutal hardships that took place in the Soviet Union, with people seen as working against the Communist party often executed or sent to gulags where life was cheap.