Photograph of the gantry at Segezha Station (Medvezhegorsk Region, Karelian Autonomous SSR). Taken in 1936. Photography of the construction of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Combine and of the town of Segezha was undertaken by a special section of the photo-technical Pffice of the NKVD Belbaltlag (White...

A hinge from the camp gates. 1940s to 1950s. Camp section Piyarga of the PechorZhelDorLag (Pechora Railway Camp) (Komi ASSR). Found in July 2007 during a local history expedition in the region of the former camp (Piyarga Railway Station, at 2083km on the Northern Railway). It is kept in the Inta Local...

A home-made New Year greetings card. From between 1950 and 1953. The work of Igor’ Borisovich Babin (1914-1977), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag. I.B. Babin, a design engineer, was arrested initially in April, 1937, and in May, 1938, he was sentenced to 5 years in the camps. He was sent to...

A home-made Christmas card, dated 25.12.1955. The card was given to Petronele Aksamitauskaite (born 1923), a political prisoner in the AngarLag (Irkutsk oblast'), in 1955. Petronele Aksamitauskaite was sentenced to 25 years in the camps in June, 1948. She was imprisoned in the KarLag, the StepLag (Kengir...

Group photograph of the directors of the Administration of the Bogoslovskii Corrective Labour Camp, taken on 08.08.1942 in the settlement of Turinskie Rudniki (the Turinsk Mines) in the Serov Region of Sverdlovsk oblast’. Second on the left in the front row is Mikhail Ivanovich Den’gin (1904-1949)....

A group photograph of shock-workers in the White Sea-Baltic Combine (BelBaltLag - White Sea-Baltic Camp). After 1935. Taken during the Seventh Camp Rally for Shock-workers in the White Sea-Baltic Combine, which took place in Medvezh’ia Gora Settlement, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic....

A group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets had been a special settler in the Iurga region since 1945, her special settler status...

A group photograph of employees (administrative staff) of the 3rd section of Camp Section No.4 of the SevKuzBassLag taken in July, 1948. The Camp Section was located in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A group photograph of participants in a Komsomol Conference in Marksshtadt (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for Germans in the Volga Region), taken in spring 1924. In the 2nd row are: 1) E.I. Schőnfeld (second on the left) 2) V.I. Schőnfeld, Second Secretary of the Canton Committee of the Komsomol...

A group photograph of railway workers with a “Shch” series locomotive in the background. It was taken in 1921. One person, N.I. Malev, is identified in the picture (first on the left in the second row) and there is an inscription that reads “Malev N.I. arestovan sent. 1938” [“N.I. Malyev, arrested April,...

A group photograph of the personnel in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Special Purpose Detachment, taken in 1922. It is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

Gintautas Martynaitis. “Separation of the men from their families at Nayaii Vil’nya station”. Drawing. 1990s. A series of drawings (30 items) by Gintautas Martynaitis (1935-1999) is devoted to memories of a childhood spent on the shores of the Laptev Sea. He was deported to Siberia with his family in...

Gintautas Martynaitis. Map of the Lithuanian exile. 1990s. The map shows the main inhabited localities in the delta of the Lena River and on the littoral of the Laptev Sea (Yakutsk ASSR) where special settlers from Lithuania lived from 1942 onwards. Gintautas Martynaitis (1935-1999) was deported to...

Gintautas Martynaitis. “A Lithuanian Lesson in a Barrack”. 1990s. A series of drawings (30 items) by Gintautas Martynaitis (1935-1999) is devoted to memories of a childhood spent on the shores of the Laptev Sea. He was deported to Siberia along with his family in 1941 and then, in 1942, he was sent...

Gintautas Martynaitis. “Disembarkation of Lithuanian Exiles onto Trofimovsk Island. 28 August, 1942”. Drawing. 1990s. A series of drawings (30 items) by Gintautas Martynaitis (1935-1999) is devoted to memories of a childhood spent on the shores of the Laptev Sea. He was deported to Siberia with his...