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been a special settler in the Iurga region and stayed on to live and work in Iurga after her special settler’s status was revoked in February 1956....

A group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets had been a special settler in the Iurga region since 1945, her special settler status...

Marriage certificate (duplicate) of Leontin Trofimovich Cherniy (1890-not before 1951) and Elena Iakovlevna Borodina, issued on the 18.04.1951 by the Mariinsk registry office. The marriage took place in Mariinsk on 02.03.1910. The document is kept in the Izhmorsk Regional Local History Museum. (Photo...

An official memo from the director of the Personnel Section of the UkhtPechLag, Smirnov, to the director of OGPU Industry No.2, dated February, 1933. It contains an explanation for the detention in the camp of the internal exile (released prisoner) Tat’iana Iosifovna Blumberg and also the general rules...

A portrait of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Romanenko (born 1896), drilling expert of Industry No.2 of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp, with his wife, Mariia, taken in 1933 in the Vodnyi Settlement. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement.

Portrait of Fedor Aleksandrovich Toropov (1884-1953), the chief technologist of the radium factory of Industry No.2 in the UkhtPechLag, taken in Ukhta at the beginning of the 1950s. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of the Vodnyi Settlement.

A portrait of Filip Ivanovich Knaus (1985-?), a former prisoner, taken in the 1970s in the Kuibyshev Region of Novosibirsk oblast’, where he lived after his release. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A portrait of Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929), an inhabitant of the town of Iurga, Kemerovo oblast’ and a former special settler, taken in 1960. The photograph was given to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum in 2005 for the preparation of an exhibition called “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo goroda...

Portrait of Piotr Mikhailovich Rogash taken in the 1950s in the village of Voskresenka (a camp section of the Northern Kuzbass Corrective Labour Camp). It is kept in the Izhmorskii Region Local History Museum.

A photograph of a family of special settlers, the Morozovs, who, in 1931, were de-kulakized and exiled from Bashkiria. It was taken in 1967 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo oblast’. It is on show in an exhibition in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

“Rehabilitated”. A self-portrait of N.I. Getman, 1978. Canvas, Oil. A genuine certificate of rehabilitation is fixed to the canvas. Nikolai Ivanovich Getman (1917-2004) was an artist. He was the author of a series of paintings called “The GULAG through the eyes of an artist” (1953-2004). In the period...