Burial of a child of Lithuanian exiles. 1956. Novoselovo region, Krasnoyarsk district. The photograph is kept in the Panevezys Local History Museum (Panevezys, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum in 1988. (Photo December, 2011).

The burial of Aligis Kirshki, a student and Lithuanian exile. 1955. Krasnoyarsk. The photograph is kept in the Panevezys Local History Museum (Panevezys, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by O.Permanaviciute-Slesoraitene in 1992. (Photo December, 2011).

A cable bus for an electric cable. 1940s. Used for laying electricity cables in premises belonging to the lime factory in the Dzhintui Camp, part of PechorLag (Komi ASSR). The Camp Section was in existence from 1939 to 1957. The main form of work was mining of limestone for the production of lime. The...

Cap. 1950s. Found by an expedition organized by the Palangos Section of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Exiles on the territory of a former Camp in Ermakovo (Krasnoyarsk Krai). It is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance and Exile (Lithuanian Republic) (Photo December, 2010).

A capsule for a “ksiva” (secret note) made in 1985 in Camp VS 389/36 (Kuchino village, Chukovsk region, Perm oblast’) by the political prisoner Grigorii Zinov’evich Isaev (born 1943) for the political prisoner Rostislav Borisovich Evdokimov (born 1950). Evdokimov put a “ksiva” containing a chronicle...

A certificate issued by the Special Commandant’s Office MVD Komi ASSR in the name of Antanas Stepanavicius (more accurately: Staponavicius, born 1901). Dated 30.12.1955. Inta (Komi ASSR). Issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History...

A certificate from the MVD Special Commandant’s Office in the name of Bolis Bagdonas (born 1912). Dated 29.12.1955, Inta (Komi ASSR). Issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum (Komi Republic).

A certificate issued by the MVD Special Commandant’s Office, Komi ASSR in the name of Ionas Pecheliunas (born 1915). Dated 29.12.1955. Inta (Komi ASSR). It was issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum, Komi Republic.

A certificate from the MVD Special Commandant’s Office, Komi ASSR, in the name of Jurgis Adomaitis (born 1912). Dated 28.12.1955, Inta (Komi ASSR). It was issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum (Komi Republic).

A self-made chisel, found in 1990 on the territory of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant (Segezha Town, Karelia Republic). A tool for prisoners who were construction-workers as the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant (Camp division No 4 of the Belomor-Baltiiskii Corrective Labour Camp) in the 1930s....

The chisel for splitting stone was found in 1993 by Mariusz Wilk near a quarry on one of the islands of Lake Onega (Karelian Republic), where, in the 1930s, there was the camp section of the BelBaltLag (the camp of the White Sea- Baltic Sea Canal) . It is kept in the Museum of the Research and Information...

A cigar-case made out of Perspex, made by Nikolai Andreeevich Semenov (1906-1996) while he was a prisoner in the Special Prison No.16 of the MGB SSSR OKB [Ministry of State Security of the USSR Joint Design Office], the Marfino “sharashka” [a sharashka was a research and development office employing...

An ivory cross on fine string, to be worn next to the skin. 1940s. It belonged to Jonas Misiavicius, a political prisoner, when he was in a Camp in Ukhta, Komi ASSR. It is kept in Panevezys Local History Museum (Panevezys, Lihuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum in 1996. (Photo December 201...

A cross in the graveyard of special settlers in the settlement of Gornyi (now part of the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo oblast’). After 1931 the settlement was used for settling dekulakized peasants from Bashkiria, Moscow oblast’ and other areas of the country, and after 1941, German special settlers...

A Delegate’s Pass for the Iurga Municipal Council of Workers’ Deputies, issued on 25.04.1963 in the name of Lidiia Petrovna Gets. L.P. Gets (born 1929), had been a special settler in the Iurga region and stayed on to live and work in Iurga after her special settler’s status was revoked in February 1956....