Location from Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
A remote Soviet prison and research facility on the Kamchatka Peninsula where Hopper was held captive and forced to work while the Russians experimented with captured Demogorgons.
Kamchatka is where Hopper's presumed death becomes a survival story. After the explosion at the Russian base, Hopper was captured and shipped to this remote gulag, where the Soviets hold him as a prisoner of war that officially doesn't exist. The facility serves a dual purpose: forced labor on the surface and Upside Down research below, where Russian scientists keep captive Demogorgons in cages and study the creatures' biology. Hopper must survive the brutality of the guards, the killing cold, and eventually a direct confrontation with a Demogorgon in an arena-style pit — the Russians' method of executing prisoners who know too much. His ally Dmitri, a corrupt guard with a conscience, becomes his lifeline. Kamchatka represents the show's widest geographical reach and its darkest human cruelty: a place where the real monsters wear uniforms.
A brutal concrete gulag in the frozen wastes of the Kamchatka Peninsula, surrounded by endless snow and barbed wire. Guard towers overlook a bleak yard where emaciated prisoners break rocks in sub-zero temperatures. Deep inside the facility, reinforced chambers hold captured Demogorgons in cages — living specimens transported from the Upside Down for study and weaponization. Hopper, gaunt and bearded, his head shaved, works the frozen ground with a shackle on his ankle.
Also known as: Kamchatka, the Russian prison, the gulag, Kamchatka Prison