A device for making felt. It belonged to E. Mižutavičienė when she was in exile in the Tit-Ary Settlement (Yakutia). Between 1942 and 1957. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A photograph of the domestic building of the governing body of the Segezhstroi, taken between 1936 and 1938 in the settlement of Segezha in the Medvezh’egorsk Region of the Karelia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The photographs of the construction of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant and...

A dress from about 1953. Made and embroidered by Elena Ilginaite-Miežetienė when she was in exile in Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by E. Ilginaite-Miežetienė in 2006. (Photo December,...

Greetings card embroidered on fabric. It is the work of Political Prisoner, Lidija Graudinaite. Dubravlag (Pot’ma, Mordovia). 1949. In the top right-hand corner is a symbolic representation of a red-green and yellow panel (the banned colours of the National Flag of Lithuania) surrounded by a ribbon...

Greetings card, embroidered on fabric. It is the work of the political prisoner Lidija Graudinaite. Dubravlag (Pot’ma, Mordovia). 1949. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

An embroidered panel. It was made by Regina Beniušytė-Sterpeikienė Regina (born 1939), who was in exile in the Kezhemsk Region of Krasnoyarsk Province from 1948 to 1958. In the centre there is an embroidered text (translation from Lithuanian): “Youth goes by like a dream, but our memories will forever...

Embroidered panel called "Devushka za reshetkoi" [ “Girl Behind Bars”]. Late 1940s. Made by the political prisoner Petronele Aksamitauskaite (born 1923) in the Kengir Section of the StepLag. Petronele Aksamitauskaite was sentenced to 25 years in the camps in June, 1948. She served time in the KarLag,...

An embroidered panel. 1950s. Made by Elena Ilginaite-Miežetienė while she was in exile in Krasnoyarsk Region. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by E. Ilginaite-Miežetienė in 2006. (Photo December, 2010...

Embroidered pillow. The work of two unknown political prisoners. Dubravlag, Transit Camp Section No.18 (Mordovia). 1951. Given to political prisoner Romualdas Vasiliauskas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Photograph of the gantry at Segezha Station (Medvezhegorsk Region, Karelian Autonomous SSR). Taken in 1936. Photography of the construction of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Combine and of the town of Segezha was undertaken by a special section of the photo-technical Pffice of the NKVD Belbaltlag (White...

A hinge from the camp gates. 1940s to 1950s. Camp section Piyarga of the PechorZhelDorLag (Pechora Railway Camp) (Komi ASSR). Found in July 2007 during a local history expedition in the region of the former camp (Piyarga Railway Station, at 2083km on the Northern Railway). It is kept in the Inta Local...

A home-made New Year greetings card. From between 1950 and 1953. The work of Igor’ Borisovich Babin (1914-1977), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag. I.B. Babin, a design engineer, was arrested initially in April, 1937, and in May, 1938, he was sentenced to 5 years in the camps. He was sent to...

A home-made Christmas card, dated 25.12.1955. The card was given to Petronele Aksamitauskaite (born 1923), a political prisoner in the AngarLag (Irkutsk oblast'), in 1955. Petronele Aksamitauskaite was sentenced to 25 years in the camps in June, 1948. She was imprisoned in the KarLag, the StepLag (Kengir...

Group photograph of the directors of the Administration of the Bogoslovskii Corrective Labour Camp, taken on 08.08.1942 in the settlement of Turinskie Rudniki (the Turinsk Mines) in the Serov Region of Sverdlovsk oblast’. Second on the left in the front row is Mikhail Ivanovich Den’gin (1904-1949)....

A group photograph of shock-workers in the White Sea-Baltic Combine (BelBaltLag - White Sea-Baltic Camp). After 1935. Taken during the Seventh Camp Rally for Shock-workers in the White Sea-Baltic Combine, which took place in Medvezh’ia Gora Settlement, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic....