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 building in Anzhero-Suzhdensk (3rd Prokop’evskii Lane) which housed the headquarters of the camp division No.11 of Camp No.503 of the Administration of the NKVD-MVD Department for the affairs of prisoners-of-war and internees [OPV UNKVD-UMVD] for German and Japanese prisoners of war in the years 1944-1949....

Lists of Lithuanian Special Settlers according to their barracks. Khramtsovka Settlement, Cheremkhovskii region, Irkutsk oblast’. End of the 1940s – beginning of 1950s. Manuscript. Kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Rim-lock from a cell-door in the “Kresty” prison (St Petersburg, 5-7 Arsenal’naia Naberezhnaia [Arsenal Embankment], 8 ul. Komsomola). Locks of this type have been used to lock cells from the 1920s to the present time. This lock was given to the St Petersburg “Memorial” scientific information centre...

An official memo from the assistant director of the of the UkhtPechLag, Administration, G.P.Zakar’ian (he is also the director of the 3rd Section) addressed to the director of Industry No.2, N.F. Butenin. Date of composition 24.11.1934. It is a document accompanying money sent to be handed over to...

An official memo from the director of the 3rd Section of Industry No.2, Kuz’min, and the director of the Operational Section of the Home Guard (OO VOKhR), Bobrov to the director of OGPU Industry No.2, dated 28.01.1934. It is stamped “Secret”. It contains a request for the allocation of transport for...

An official memo from the director of the 3rd sub-section of the Industry to the director of the TEK (the Technical-Operational Column) of OGPU Industry No.2 of the UkhtPechLag, dated 11.04.1935. It contains a description of the work to be done on the dismantling and relocating of an accommodation-barracks...

An official memo from the director of the Accounting and Distribution Section of the Administration of the UkhtPechLag N.K. Merkulov to the director of Industry No.2, I.K. Danilovskii, dated 03.05.1934. It bears the stamp “Secret”. It contains an instruction concerning the necessity of holding prisoners...

A photograph of a warehouse in one of the divisions of the SibLag (1930s-1940s). It is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A female prisoner’s dress. Taishet, Camp 9 (Irkutsk Province). 1954. The dress belonged to the teacher Rūtai Murtaité, a political prisoner. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and the Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic) (Photo 2005, 2010)