Objects made out of mammoth-bone –a mouthpiece, a paper-weight, a buckle, a thimble, some buttons and a comb. They were made by the Černecki brothers when they were in exile. Settlement Bykov Mys on the coast of the Laptev Sea, Yakutia, between 1944 and 1947. They are kept in the Museum of Exile and...

An official memo from imprisoned geologist Il’ia Isaakovich Ginzburg (1882-1965) addressed to the assistant director of the Administration of the Northern Special Purpose Camps, Ia.M.Moroz. It is dated 31.01.1930, Chib’iu Settlement. It contains a description of preparatory work on the construction...

An official memo from the assistant director of the Administrative and Finance Section and the Labour Section, N.V. Shnurkovskii, to the deputy director of OGPU Industry No.2 of the UkhtPechLag, D.G. Khomiakov, dated 21.09.1933. Stamped “Secret”. It contains a report about the urgent need to provide...

An official memo from the assistant director of the of the UkhtPechLag, Administration, G.P.Zakar’ian (he is also the director of the 3rd Section) addressed to the director of Industry No.2, N.F. Butenin. Date of composition 24.11.1934. It is a document accompanying money sent to be handed over to...

Official memo from the director of Supplies in the OGPU UkhtPechLag to the director of the TEK (the Technical and Operational Column) of Industry No.2 (the radium mine), concerning the limits on the distribution of bread for the first decade of April (year not given). There are also instructions on...

An official memo from the director of the 3rd Section of Industry No.2, Kuz’min, and the director of the Operational Section of the Home Guard (OO VOKhR), Bobrov to the director of OGPU Industry No.2, dated 28.01.1934. It is stamped “Secret”. It contains a request for the allocation of transport for...

An official memo from the director of the 3rd sub-section of the Industry to the director of the TEK (the Technical-Operational Column) of OGPU Industry No.2 of the UkhtPechLag, dated 11.04.1935. It contains a description of the work to be done on the dismantling and relocating of an accommodation-barracks...

An official memo from the director of the Personnel Section of the UkhtPechLag, Smirnov, to the director of OGPU Industry No.2, dated February, 1933. It contains an explanation for the detention in the camp of the internal exile (released prisoner) Tat’iana Iosifovna Blumberg and also the general rules...

An official memo from the director of the Personnel Section of the UkhtPechLag, Smirnov, and the director of Registration and Statistics Section, Kukin, to the director of OGPU Industry No.2 dated 03.08.1933. It is stamped “Lit.”V” V. Srochno [Urgent]”. It is an enquiry as to the whereabouts of Anna...

An official memo from the director of the Accounting and Distribution Section of the Administration of the UkhtPechLag N.K. Merkulov to the director of Industry No.2, I.K. Danilovskii, dated 03.05.1934. It bears the stamp “Secret”. It contains an instruction concerning the necessity of holding prisoners...

An official memo from the Financial Department of the UkhtPechLag addressed to the director of Industry No.2. Date it was written: 26.10.1934. This document accompanying the belongings of the former prisoner G.N. Vysotskii which were being transferred, and which should be handed to him for a receipt...

An official memo from the head of Factory No.3 to the director of TEK (the Technical-Operational Column) of Industry No.2 of the UkhtPechLag, Antonov, dated 26.03.1935, concerning the issuing of food to prisoners as a reward for overtime work. It includes a list of eight prisoners, and also a list...

An official memo from the official representative of the 3rd Section, Shestakov, to the director of Industry No.2, Danilevskii, dated 31.12.1933. It is an official report on the deficiencies in the work of several sub-sections of the Industry and the reprehensible conduct of a number of employees, with...

Oktiabrina Ivanovna Babushkina (née Mel’nikova). Dated 06.11.1995, Susuman, Magadan oblast'. Photograph. Oktiabrina Ivanovna was born in 1935 into a family who had been de-kulakized. In 1931, her parents were deported as a “socially dangerous elements” to Tupik Village (Chita oblast', nowadays Zabaikal...