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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the Norilsk Golgotha memorial, built to commemorate the memory of those imprisoned in Norillag

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After laying flowers on the symbolic mass grave, Vladimir Putin talked to members of the Protection of Victims of Political Repression public association and former Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp prisoners who attended the ceremony. During their conversation, former prisoners told the prime minister that somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people had been imprisoned in Norillag.

Members of the public thanked the prime minister for visiting the memorial complex and remembering the events that took place there. "It cannot be forgotten", Vladimir Putin answered.

The Prime Minister told those who gathered for the memorial event that during Tuesday's meeting on developing Norilsk and the mining and smelting company Norilsk Nickel, he reminded the company's leaders of the price at which their business had been established. "On the one hand, it answered the country's needs, on the other - what a price had been paid," Vladimir Putin said. The prime minister added that what the prisoners of Norillag had lived through must never be forgotten, so that nothing similar can ever happen again.