The last prisoners were released in 1987, three years into Mikhail Gorbachev’s rule. Now it was being restored as a Gulag Museum by Memorial, a human-rights group founded by the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, to remind Russians of their totalitarian past.
1987年，即戈尔巴乔夫执政三年后释放了最后一名政治犯。现在持不同政见的物理学家安德烈·萨哈罗夫创立的人权组织“纪念”将其改建为警醒俄国人勿忘极权主义过去的古拉格博物馆。