The Mask of Sorrow (Russian: Маска скорби, romanized: Maska skorbi) is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It consists of a large concrete statue of a face, with tears coming from the left eye in the form of small masks.
The right eye is in the form of a barred window. The back side portrays a weeping young woman and a man on a cross with his head hanging backwards.
The Mask of Sorrow (Russian: Маска скорби, romanized: Maska skorbi) is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It consists of a large concrete statue of a face, with tears coming from the left eye in the form of small masks.
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