Vaninsky port
"Vaninsky Port" or "I Remember That Port in Vanino" is a popular Russian folk song of the USSR epoch, which is often called an anthem of Soviet GULAG prisoners on Kolyma. Time of writing is unknown. A Kolyma prisoner A.G. Morozov asserted he had heard it in autumn 1947. He dated its writing by 1946–1947 years. It was attributed and self-attributed to a number of authors, including a repressed poets Nikolay Zabolotsky, Boris Ruchyov and even to executed by shooting in 1938, Boris Kornilov. Alexander Voznesensky suggested the authorship of F.M. Dyomin-Blagoveshchensky. A Magadan littérateur A.M. Biryukov has researched this issue and argued convincingly that its author was Konstantin Sarakhanov, a technical manager of some Magadan mines.
The song is named for the port in the village Vanino, on the Pacific coast of Russia. The Vanino port was a transit point for transportation of deported Gulag prisoners who headed to the Kolyma. At the station and in the port of Vanino prisoners were transferred from trains to ships heading to Magadan - an administrative center of "Dalstroy" and Sevvostlag.