Women of the Gulag is a 2018 US short documentary film[2] directed by Marianna Yarovskaya.

[3] and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013).

[4] Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Mark Jonathan Harris, it was a Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee at the 2018 Academy Awards.

The film was shot for five years, the team found its six heroines in the most diverse and remote corners of the former Soviet Union – in Ural, Far East, Sukhumi, and Moscow Oblast.

[9] It won festivals in Iceland,[10] US/California, South Korea, Hong Kong, France, Canada, Croatia, and Russia.