sentences:  The town sits on the M56 Kolyma Highway, an unsealed track often known as the "Road of Bones", which connects Yakutsk with Magadan.It was founded in 1936 as a settlement of a sovkhoz called "Susuman", named after the nearby river of the same name.In 1938, the settlement was greatly expanded to become a center of gold mining in the western part of what is now Magadan Oblast under the control of Dalstroy.