A group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets had been a special settler in the Iurga region since 1945, her special settler status...

A group photograph of employees (administrative staff) of the 3rd section of Camp Section No.4 of the SevKuzBassLag taken in July, 1948. The Camp Section was located in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A group photograph of participants in a Komsomol Conference in Marksshtadt (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for Germans in the Volga Region), taken in spring 1924. In the 2nd row are: 1) E.I. Schőnfeld (second on the left) 2) V.I. Schőnfeld, Second Secretary of the Canton Committee of the Komsomol...

A group photograph of railway workers with a “Shch” series locomotive in the background. It was taken in 1921. One person, N.I. Malev, is identified in the picture (first on the left in the second row) and there is an inscription that reads “Malev N.I. arestovan sent. 1938” [“N.I. Malyev, arrested April,...

A group photograph of the personnel in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Special Purpose Detachment, taken in 1922. It is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

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...

This icon depicting the Saints Pitirim and Tikhon belonged to Tikhon Romanovich Muravskii (1896- shot 20.12.1937). It was preserved in the family, first by T.R. Muravskii’s sister Evdokia Romanovna Povaliaeva (around 1900-1986), later by T.R. Muravskii’s son, Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii (born 1928)...

An inscription (records of the days passed in captivity) on the door of a punishment cell in the accommodation in the Community building of the Golgofo-Raspiatskii monastery on the Island of Anzer in the Solovetskii Archipelago (Archangelsk Province). Made on a cross-beam on the internal part of the...

An inscription carved on a plank that served as the sill of the feeding hole in a prison door in the former Community Accommodation of the Golgofa-Raspiatskii Monastery (Anzer Island in the Solovetskii Archipelago, Archangel Province). The text of the inscription reads “180 lenin po KRDT sid. 12/XI.36...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for February 1928. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all)...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for 1930. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all) and printed...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for 1930. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all) and printed...

Journal “Rūpintojelis”(“The Mourning Christ”) 1989. No.25. An unofficial Lithuanian national Catholic journal. It was published by a nun, Ada Urbonaite (Sister Benvenuta) from March, 1977, to March, 1990 – 26 issues in all. The print-run was produced on an “Era” (rotary printer). This copy is kept in...