A birth certificate for a child of prisoner M.S.Shutova. Dated 12.01.1942, signed by the head of maternity home No.2, Tomsk. Mariya Sergeyevna Shutova (1905-1999) gave birth to a daughter while in Tomsk transit prison on 02.01.1942. She was then transferred to the Iaia division of the Administration...

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 letter by Solomon L’vovich Entin (1892-1947), a political prisoner, to his relatives, written on the 13.10.1947 in the prison hospital of Vladimir Prison, a few days before his death. The letter was kept by the family in their father’s memory. In 2004, Larisa Solomonovna Krutilova (born 1927), Entin’s...

Nail-scissors, belonging to Mira Aleksandrovna Fainiut (1907-2002), who in 1939-1947 was a prisoner in the Kolyma Camps. In 1937, M.A. Fainiut was given a five-year camp term and in April, 1938, together with her seven-month-old daughter, was sent from Iakutsk to the Administration of the North-East...