Hammer – a tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag, used for the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, between Locks Nos. 10 and 11 during repair-works. It is part of the permanent exhibition in the Segezha Municipal Museum Centre....

A forged hinge for fastening a screen. From the 1940s-1950s. It was made in the forge of the Usa camp section (Komi ASSR). In the 1940s-1950s there were an industrial zone (a sand and gravel quarry) in the region of Usa station, as well as the Usa camp section and a sick-bay. The prisoners worked in...

Photograph of a hotel under construction in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, taken on 26.09.1937. The construction and finishing work was carried out by women prisoners of the Segezha corrective labour camp. The photographs of the construction...

A home-made hammer. Second half of the 1940s. It was made by Antanas Rushkis (born 1924), a political prisoner, in one of the camps in Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station). In November, 1945 (1946?) Antanas Rushkis was sentenced to 10 years in a corrective labour camps followed by 5 years of internal exile....