115th kilometre labour camp
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
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.
11th kilometre labour camp
A regular labour camp intended for use in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and a bridge across the nearby Barabanicha rivulet.
123rd kilometre labour camp
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and an adjacent bridge over the Makovskaya River.
140th kilometre labour camp
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
166th kilometre labour camp
Atypical labour camp. Probably used in the maintenance of railway equipment.
169th kilometre labour camp
Camp on the riverulet Bludnaya. When the railway construction project came to an end it was abandoned here.
48th kilometre labour camp
Work camp used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line. Nearby is a quarry that was the source of sand used in the construction of ...
51st kilometre labour camp
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
96th kilometre labour camp
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Barabanicha labour camp
A vast camp for an estimated 1,000 prisoners. Unlike the other camps mapped, this one includes a hospital, large clubhouse, dog kennels and several...
Burovaya labour camp
A dilapidated camp on the Turukhan River. Alongside the construction of the railway line it was used in work on nearby drilling towers.
Idyakha labour camp
Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Ketpar labour camp
Labour camp on the rivulet Ketpar. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and an adjacent bridge.
Klyuch labour camp
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line. Burned down in August 2013.
Limbyayakha labour camp
Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Norilsk
City 400 km beyond the Arctic Circle. In 1935–1956 it was the centre of the Norillag (Norislk correctional labour camp). Prisoners mainly worked in...
Pechora
Railway station that became a town in 1949. From 1940 the main centre of the Sevpechlag (1940–1950) and Pechorlag (1950–1959) Gulag camp complexes....
Punitive labour camp
This punitive camp is located some distance from the remnants of the railway embankments and is relatively inaccessible. It does not appear on a mi...
Shuchy labour camp
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Solovetsky Islands
In the 1920s and 1930s the OGPU’s Solovetsky correctional labour camp was the most important part of the USSR’s camp system. Its camp complex was i...
Terraska labour camp
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.