A mosaic portrait of I. Stalin created in 1936 by Aleksei Feodosevich Vangengeim (1881-1937), a prisoner of the Solovetskii Camp, as a present to his daughter Eleonora. The portrait turned out to be the last present received by the family from their father, who was shot on 03.11.1937. In 2004 Eleonora...

A portrait of Tat’iana Kuzminichna Ruzaeva (married name Rogash), who, from the second half of 1941, was employed as a guard in Camp Section No.4 of the Mariinsk Section of the Northern Kuzbass Corrective Labour Camp. The photograph is kept in the Izhmorskii Region Local History Museum.

A portrait of Vasilii Kuz’mich Nuzhdov, former Deputy Head of Communications of the Iurga Section of SibLag in the village of Prirech’e, taken in 1996 outside his house in the village of Prirech’e (Iurga Region of Kemerovo oblast’). The picture was taken by N.A. Kibiakov. It is kept in the Iurga Municipal...

A postcard made from birch bark with a coloured picture, which Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1897-1899), a doctor who was a prisoner in the Medical Village of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp (Chibiu, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) sent from the camp to his daughter Margarita. It is dated 05.05.1937....

A prize silver watch with the inscription “Stoikomu sashchitniku Proletarskoi Revoliutsii ot RVS SSSR” [“To a steadfast defender of the Proletarian Revolution from the Revolutionary Military Soviet of the USSR”] that belonged to Evgenii Viktorovich Agokas (1881-1960). In January 1930, at the time of...

Railway-tickets for the Krasnoyarsk-Moscow train, dating from the 1950s. They belonged to the Liesiai family, when they were returning to Lithuania from exile. The Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo 2005).

Record book of a shock-worker of a corrective labour camp in the name of prisoner Ivan Fedorovich Kovyrnov (born 1905), issued 10.05.1936. The camp’s name has not been established. It is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum and exhibited on the stand “Repressii 1930kh” [“Repression...

A bow-saw made and used in the 1930s-1940s in the timber expeditions of the ViatLag (Kirov oblast’). During the war a family of Leningrad evacuees, the Ponomarevs, obtained the saw in exchange for groceries from people living in the Kaisk region of Kirov oblast’. During the exchange, they were told...

Nail-scissors, belonging to Mira Aleksandrovna Fainiut (1907-2002), who in 1939-1947 was a prisoner in the Kolyma Camps. In 1937, M.A. Fainiut was given a five-year camp term and in April, 1938, together with her seven-month-old daughter, was sent from Iakutsk to the Administration of the North-East...

Sketch of the title-page of “the Half- Yearly Report on the activity of the Technical Section of the Economics Department” of the Plenipotentiary Representation of the OGPU to the Leningrad Military District. It is dated 13.08.1932. It was drawn up by the imprisoned architect Nikolai Evgenevich Lansere...

Snow shoes on stilts - a device allowing the user to walk on the snow and not leave any traces. It was used by partisans when they returned to their bunker, to avoid revealing its location. Used between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance...

Spade – tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Canal Camp) during the construction of the White Sea – Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, in the stretch between Locks 10 and 11, during repair-work. The spade is on show in the permanent exhibition...

A stamp with the inscription “OGPU B.B.L. [BelBaltLag][The OGPU White Sea-Baltic Camp]. 1930s. The stamp was used for marking packaging (sacks, bales and boxes) with items produced by the garment industry in Vegeraksha – one of the divisions of the BelBaltLag. It was found during earth works by a person...

A photograph of a family of special settlers, the Morozovs, who, in 1931, were de-kulakized and exiled from Bashkiria. It was taken in 1967 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo oblast’. It is on show in an exhibition in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A leather home-made tobacco pouch. From the period between 1948 and 1954. It belonged to the political prisoner Romualdas Prekeris (born 1924) in the StepLag, and then when he was in exile in Balkhash (Karaganda oblast’). It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic...