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{{Infobox Town|name=Sovisk|screenshot=SoviskBorder.png|screenshot_alt=|caption=Border Entrance to Sovisk|founder=Cavemaker|map=1.16|warp=None|theme=Soviet/Russian (Brutalist)}}'''Sovisk''' (Russian: Совиск) is a city founded by Cavemaker and is part of the PCBSSR. | {{Infobox Town|name=Sovisk|screenshot=SoviskBorder.png|screenshot_alt=|caption=Border Entrance to Sovisk|founder=Cavemaker|map=1.16|warp=None|theme=Soviet/Russian (Brutalist)}}'''Sovisk''' (Russian: Совиск) is a city founded by Cavemaker and is part of the PCBSSR. Its theme is based off of Soviet and Russian style buildings and architecture. | ||
Sovisk owes its name to its purpose: being Soviet. It's located at the southern snow biome. | Sovisk owes its name to its purpose: being Soviet. It's located at the southern snow biome. | ||
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=== Labor camp === | === Labor camp === | ||
In the first two centuries Sovisk was exclusively built up by prisoners sent from [[Kreznik]], which were imprisoned in the ''Sovisk Gulag''(Russian short form: SovisLag). The number of | In the first two centuries Sovisk was exclusively built up by prisoners sent from [[Kreznik]], which were imprisoned in the ''Sovisk Gulag''(Russian short form: SovisLag). The number of prisoners increased annually. In summer 1953 prisoners organized the non-violent Sovisk uprising. Over a thousand participants were either moved to different prisons or were shot. 1956 the labor camp was closed and every evidence of it was removed, except an old ruin of it which is still standing today. | ||