A photograph of a family of special settlers, de-kulakized and exiled from Chuvashia. It was taken in 1935 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk in the Mariinskii Region of the West-Siberian Krai (Administrative Region). It is on show in an exhibition in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A suitcase containing tools for making boots. It belonged to Kazimiras Juskenas, who was deported along with his family from the Zarasai okrug of Lithuania to Siberia. K. Juskenas died in Siberia. When his son was released from exile he brought the suitcase and the tools back to Lithuania. The suitcase...

A photograph of the Administration of the SegezhStroi from the “Inspection Album for Photographic Records of SegezhStroi No.1”, made on 1 April 1936 in the Segezha Settlement, in the Medvezh’egorsk Region of the Karelia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Photographic records of the construction of...

A.A. Lisovskii’s application to the editor of the newspaper “Severnyi gorniak”[ “Northern Miner”], A.S. Briukhanov, is dated the second half of August, 1936. Referring to a report in the newspaper for 16.08.1936, prisoner Aleksandr Alekseevich Lisovskii is applying for the post of one of the compilers...

An application by A.P. Kaze to the head of the Vodniy water-mine of the Ukhta Industrial Complex of the MVD, Engineer-Captain D.B. Burov. Dated 02.07.1946. A.P. Kaze, an engineer of the technical planning section of the Vodniy water-mine, reports that in May, 1942, his prison term ended, and he was...

Application by I.A.Bagmut to the head of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp, State Security Senior Major Ia.M. Moroz, dated 7 October 1936. The prisoner Ivan Andrianovich Bagmut asks to be involved in the compilation of a collection on the exploitation of the natural resources and the industrialisation of the Ukhto-Pechora...

A home-made album. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a gift for Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), a political prisoner exiled to spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. The inscribed congratulation is dated 17 April, 1955. The album...

A home-made album for keeping records. End of the 1940s. Given to I. Kaziskiene, a political prisoner, by another political prisoner, Bishop Pranas Ramanauskas (1893-1962) in one of the Inta Camps. It is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance and Exile (Palanga, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo December...

An album for poetry. 1936. Made by a prisoner, the topographer Ivan Nikolaevich Akulov (1906-1938) as a present for Anna Gal’perina. H.N. Akulov was sentenced in June, 1931, to ten years in a corrective labour camp. He served his time at the OGPU Vaigach Expedition. In October, 1936, he was transferred...