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.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...

The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A bench from the house of the special settler family Tserr, who were exiled to the workers’ settlement of Iurga, in Kemerovo oblast’. It was made in Iurga in the 1940s or 1950s. In 2000 Iosif Tserr (born 1939) gave it to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum, where it became part of the permanent...

A birth certificate for a child of prisoner M.S.Shutova. Dated 12.01.1942, signed by the head of maternity home No.2, Tomsk. Mariya Sergeyevna Shutova (1905-1999) gave birth to a daughter while in Tomsk transit prison on 02.01.1942. She was then transferred to the Iaia division of the Administration...

A rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge, used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp) during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bed of the canal in the area of locks 10 and 11, during construction and repair work. It...

Blanket. RechLag, Pit No.8 (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Late 1940s- early 1950s. It belonged to the political prisoner P. Tamošiūnas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Box. The work of Political Prisoner Vladas Bure. Arkhangel’sk. 1956. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...

A box and two albums. They belonged to Jone Nagliene, a political prisoner. Spassk Section of Peschani Camp (Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast', Kazakhstan). 1955. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A wooden box, made in 1947 by an unknown prisoner in the Nyrob Corrective Labour Camp (NyrobLag, Molotovskii Region, Perm’ oblast'), given to Kseniia Kharlampievna Gornushkina (1914-1991) by prisoner friends. In 1995, K.X. Gornushkina’s husband, Evgenii Aleksandrovich Rudakovskii (1913 – post-1995)...

A box made by an unknown prisoner in PechorLag (Komi ASSR) in 1950 for Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1907-1989). In 1950 N.A. Glazov, a former political prisoner, was working as a doctor in the camp infirmary. His family (his wife and a daughter) lived with him in Inta. The box with the dedicatory...

A box used as a head-rest for prison bunks. It was used for keeping the prisoner’s property and foodstuffs. On the inside of the lid there are notes in pencil (dates an numbers – probably the days remaining or time already done in days). The box was found in 1989 by an expedition run by the Lithuanian...