Смерть в географии, или память похоронена в земле (Предел забвения Сергея Лебедева)
Death in geography — a memory passed on to the Earth (Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev)

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze the topography of the novel Oblivion, understood as the comprehensive system of nature’s components. The writer raises the question about the lost and forgotten post-existence of the Soviet Gulags. In Lebedev’s work, nature appears as a destructive element, transforming the Gulag’s Atlantis into the world of abstract deaths, performed in a physical dimension, however, devoted to a socio-cultural dimension. The natural landscape does not act as a bearer of historical memory; conversely, it is a silent witness whose silence calls into question the very existence of the concentration camp as a crime scene.

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