The Birth of Magadan Region. The Northeast of the USSR in 1953-1957

Why is the creation of the Magadan region in December 1953 - the reference point of the new era of the history of the region? Was the work of prisoners on Kolyma gold mines effective in economic criteria? What were the reasons for the crisis of gold mining Dalstroy? How was the transition to free work in the northeast of the USSR? How did the regional integration into the Soviet system go? And as the events of 1953–1957. In the north-east of the country, do the specific regional scenario of the transfer of the Center for the authorities from state to the party apparatus?

Pavel Grebenyuk discusses about these and other discussion problems of the history of the region. The study is devoted to the history of power and society in the north-east of the USSR after the death of I.V. Stalin and the creation of the Magadan region