Gulag hunter is an unusual CV entry, admits Stepan Cernousek. "We are not like professional archaeologists from the university — it is a kind of passion which is a little strange, because the topic is very dark." Stepan is the leader of a small team of archaeologists, amateur historians, and adventurers, trekking thousands of kilometres across Siberian taiga forest and facing bears, freezing temperatures and raging rivers to preserve an increasingly forgotten part of Russia's dark past — the more than 30,000 prison camps that embodied forced labour: the gulags. "Today's Russia and its relationship with its history is awkward,"...