The "floating prisons" holds in the Kolyma ex-convicts memoirs

The article is devoted to the analysis of some written and verbal evidences of the Kolyma prisoners about "journey" from Vladivostok to Magadan by water. The attentively appealing to the one of the dramatic pages of our history, make urgent some principal aspects of the individual and collective memory. Especially it belongs to population in the former Soviet Union, where was annihilated so called "enemies of people" for many years.