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...

Panoramic photograph of the town of Iurga in Kemerovo oblast’, dated “the 1950s”. In the foreground there is an area of vacant land. It is possible that this was the location of camp barracks that were destroyed at the end of the 1940s. The POW Camp in Iurga, one of the divisions of Camp No.526, was...

Panoramic photograph of the town ity of Iurga in Kemerovo oblast’, dated “the 1950s”. In the foreground there is an area of vacant land, partly developed as kitchen gardens. It is possible that this was the location of camp barracks that were destroyed at the end of the 1940s. The POW Camp in Iurga,...

Panoramic photograph of the City of Iurga in Kemerovo oblast’, dated “the 1950s”. In the foreground there is an area of vacant land, partly developed as kitchen gardens. It is possible that this was the location of camp barracks that were destroyed at the end of the 1940s. The POW Camp in Iurga, one...

Panoramic photograph of the workers’ settlement (after 1949 – town) of Iurga in Kemerovo oblast’, taken after the liquidation of the POW camp in 1948. In the foreground there is an area of vacant land where the barracks were located. Iurga was the location of one of the divisions of Camp No 526 (set...

Photograph album. 1952. It belonged to the political prisoner R. Prekeris (born 1924) in the StepLag and then in exile in Balkhash (Karaganda oblast’, Kazakhstan). It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A pick – a tool used by the prisoners of the Belbaltlag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found on the bottom of the canal in the area of Locks 10 and 11, during reconstruction and repair work. It is on show in the permanent exhibition...

A pickaxe. From the 1930s. Found on the territory of former fields belonging to the agricultural section of the Kem’ division of the BelBaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) at the beginning of the 1990s. It is kept in the Kem’ Municipal Local History Museum “Pomor’e”. (Photograph 19.08.2005).

A pillow case with an embroidered inscription in Lithuanian: “Dive, laimink tave!” (“Bless the Lord!") The pillow case belonged to the political prisoner Vinčas Bazilevičius. The embroidery was done by the political prisoner Petras Klangauskas in Noril’sk Camp in 1953. It is kept in the Museum of Exile...

A pillowcase made and embroidered by Efim Israilevich Umanskii (1899-1971) in the Internal Prison of the UNKVD (Administration of the People’s Committee for Internal Affairs) for the Leningrad oblast’ (Leningrad, 25, ul. Voinova), where he was under investigation in 1937. The embroidery was done with...

A pillowcase made and embroidered by an unidentified woman prisoner of the Akmolinskii Camp for Family Members of Traitors of the Fatherland [ChSIR] (Dolinka Settlement, KarLag [Karaganda Camp]). It belonged to Esfir’Isaakovna Slavina (1885-1964), who was imprisoned in this camp from 1938-1943. In 1994...

Poker. A tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (the White Sea-Baltic Canal Construction Camp), used for work on the building of the White Sea- Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 at the bottom of the canal in the area between locks 10 and 11 during repair work. It is on permanent exhibition...

Anele Grigaliene on a sheep-breeding farm. 1949. Ten’ga Village, Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. Photo. Anele Grigaliene (1895-1968) and her son Romuald (born 1931) were deported from Lithuania on the 14th June, 1941 to the Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. She was released from Special Settlement...