A photograph of the Administration of the SegezhStroi from the “Inspection Album for Photographic Records of SegezhStroi No.1”, made on 1 April 1936 in the Segezha Settlement, in the Medvezh’egorsk Region of the Karelia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Photographic records of the construction of...

A.A. Lisovskii’s application to the editor of the newspaper “Severnyi gorniak”[ “Northern Miner”], A.S. Briukhanov, is dated the second half of August, 1936. Referring to a report in the newspaper for 16.08.1936, prisoner Aleksandr Alekseevich Lisovskii is applying for the post of one of the compilers...

An application by A.P. Kaze to the head of the Vodniy water-mine of the Ukhta Industrial Complex of the MVD, Engineer-Captain D.B. Burov. Dated 02.07.1946. A.P. Kaze, an engineer of the technical planning section of the Vodniy water-mine, reports that in May, 1942, his prison term ended, and he was...

Application by I.A.Bagmut to the head of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp, State Security Senior Major Ia.M. Moroz, dated 7 October 1936. The prisoner Ivan Andrianovich Bagmut asks to be involved in the compilation of a collection on the exploitation of the natural resources and the industrialisation of the Ukhto-Pechora...

The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A photograph of a barrack-block of Section No.3 of Camp Division No.4 in the BelbaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) taken between 1936 and 1938 in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk Region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A photographic record of the construction of the...

A rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge, used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp) during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bed of the canal in the area of locks 10 and 11, during construction and repair work. It...

Blanket. RechLag, Pit No.8 (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Late 1940s- early 1950s. It belonged to the political prisoner P. Tamošiūnas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A board from a camp barrack of the SibLag, with the inscription “Zdes’ sidel sledstvie 6 m Mel’chakov Petr” [“Here was imprisoned investigation 6 months Petr Mel’chakov”]. It was found by an inhabitant of the Miliutino Settlement, in Iurga Region, Kemerovo oblast’, during earthworks. It is kept in the...

A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...

Box. The work of Political Prisoner Vladas Bure. Arkhangel’sk. 1956. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A box and two albums. They belonged to Jone Nagliene, a political prisoner. Spassk Section of Peschani Camp (Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast', Kazakhstan). 1955. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A wooden box, made in 1947 by an unknown prisoner in the Nyrob Corrective Labour Camp (NyrobLag, Molotovskii Region, Perm’ oblast'), given to Kseniia Kharlampievna Gornushkina (1914-1991) by prisoner friends. In 1995, K.X. Gornushkina’s husband, Evgenii Aleksandrovich Rudakovskii (1913 – post-1995)...

A box made by an unknown prisoner in PechorLag (Komi ASSR) in 1950 for Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1907-1989). In 1950 N.A. Glazov, a former political prisoner, was working as a doctor in the camp infirmary. His family (his wife and a daughter) lived with him in Inta. The box with the dedicatory...

A box used as a head-rest for prison bunks. It was used for keeping the prisoner’s property and foodstuffs. On the inside of the lid there are notes in pencil (dates an numbers – probably the days remaining or time already done in days). The box was found in 1989 by an expedition run by the Lithuanian...