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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.

Bridge over Barabanikha river

Bridge over Penzeryakha river

Ermakovo

Ermakovo is the location of the Yenisei correctional labour camps and Construction 503 (established: 5.2.1949; abolished 12.11.1949) and the Northe...

Salekhard

Salekhard is the locaction of the Ob correctional labour camp and Construction 501 (established 5.2.1949; abolished 12.2.1954).

Stalin’s Pantheon

The ruins of a famous pantheon in honour of Stalin built in the village of Kureyka, where he was exiled under the tsar.

Yanov-Stan

Yanov Stan is a meteorological station on the Turukhan River. One of the main construction centres during the building of the Dead Road.