The following items and documents illustrate various forms of Soviet repression and Gulag camps. They are a selection of items mapped during expeditions, archival materials and objects and documents belonging to individual survivors.
Archangelsk
A port city on the banks of the White Sea in the north of Russia. The first correctional labour camps (the so-called Northern Camps) were set up in...
Borjomi
Grozny
Kirov
City in the northeast of the European part of Russia, formerly known as Vyatka. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several sm...
Kotlas
A transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to camps on the territory of the Komi Autonomous Socialist Republic. Starting po...
Marhanets
Town in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central-southern Ukraine where ore mines were located. Captives mined manganese ore in the mines of the Nikopo...
Novosibirsk
City in south-western Siberia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Siblag, Novosibirsklag, ...
Omsk
City in south-western Siberia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Omlag, Omskstroy).
Petrozavodsk
City in north-western Russia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Petrozavodsklag) and POW ...
Tomsk
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tomsklag, Voroninlag) and POW camps.
Tyumen
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tyumenlag) and POW camps.
Vladivostok
Far East port city. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vladlag) and POW camps. The city al...
Vologda
At various periods the city was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vologdalag) and POW camps.
Yekaterinburg
Formerly Sverdlovsk. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Sverdlovsklag) and POW camps.