Home-made coat hanger. 1940s-1950s, USVITL (Administration of the North East Corrective Labour Camps). Found in 2006 on the territory of the Verkhnii Kanion (Upper Canyon) (Srednekansk Region of Magadan oblast'), a former sub-section of the Administration of the USVITL, during an expedition organized...

Embroidered panel. 1950s. Made by Salomea Machenite while in exile. S. Machenite was deported from Lithuania on 28.05.1948 and found herself in Cheputai Settlement in the Zaigraevsk Region of the Buryat-Mongolsk ASSR. In 1992 she gave her creation to the Panevezys Local History Museum. The panel is...

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...

Gintautas Martynaitis. “Exiled Lithuanians in a barrack-block on Trofimovsk Island”. 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. In 1941 he was deported to Siberia along with his family,...

Gintautas Martynaitis. “Lithuanian Exiles in a Railway Wagon”. 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 1941 and then, in 1942, he was...

Gintautas Martynaitis. “The transport of logs by women exiles, to heat buildings in Trofimovsk. Drawing. 1990s. A series of drawings (30 items) by Gintautas Martynaitis (1935-1999) is dedicated to the memories of a childhood spent on the shores of the Laptyev Sea. He was deported to Siberia with his...

A quilted jacket with the number “E-662”. It belonged to Ionas Danta (born 1913), who in the period 1951-1954 was a political prisoner in one of the camps of the SibLag (Tomsk Province). After his release from the camp Danta wore the jacket while in exile in Chuna Settlement, Irkutsk oblast', and in...

“Rehabilitated”. A self-portrait of N.I. Getman, 1978. Canvas, Oil. A genuine certificate of rehabilitation is fixed to the canvas. Nikolai Ivanovich Getman (1917-2004) was an artist. He was the author of a series of paintings called “The GULAG through the eyes of an artist” (1953-2004). In the period...

A home-made shoe. 1940s-1950s. Noril'Lag (Norilsk Camp). Made of felt, with a rubber sole. Found in 2006 on the territory of one of the former camp sections around Mine No.3/6 (“Taimir”) during an expedition led by the State Museum of the History of the Gulag. Shown in the Museum’s permanent exhibition....

V.V. Karklin’sh. “Pine Tree”. A study. Card. Oils. 1957. Inta (Komi ASSR). Vitol’d Vilisovich Karklin’sh (1903-1966) was an artist and architect. In 1946 he was sentenced in the Latvian SSR to 10 years in a Corrective Labour Camp. He served his sentence initially in Kargopol’Lag, then from 1950 in MinLag....

Camp number “TI-245”. BerLag. 1949. It belonged to Katerina Bazhilevskaia (possibly Bazilevskaia), who was arrested in 1946 in Leningrad. It is kept in the Museum of the Occupation (Tallin). It was given to the Museum by a former political prisoner, Aadu Ol’. (Photo: November, 2010).

The home-made device for catching fish was found in the area of the Vorkuta-Vom jetty in 2004 during a school local history expedition led by I.V. Vitman and O.A. Gudovanyi. It is kept in the History and Geology Museum “A Town in the North of Russia” in School No.14. (Vorgashor Settlement, Vorkuta)....