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Ancillary buildings were located outside the fenced camp territory. These included stores, bakeries and electric power stations, alongside faciliti...
Ancillary buildings were located outside the fenced camp territory. These included stores, bakeries and electric power stations, alongside faciliti...
Guard dogs were an essential element of patrols at Gulag camps. Their pens were located outside the fenced area of camps. Ten wooden kennels have b...
Remnants of a simple, unadorned entrance gate at a camp at the 96-kilometre point on the Turukhan River. To the right of the gate are ruins of the ...
Intended for prisoners, this was the most common type of building in every camp. This type of barracks measures 40 m x 8.5 m and is divided into fo...
This type of building measures 26m x 8m and is divided by an internal wall into two equal halves with separate entrances. Each part housed 40–50 pr...
This building is intended for prisoners, though it has more comfortable conditions than prevailed at most large barracks. It is less than half the...
The depot lies 2.5 kilometres along the embankment from the abandoned town of Yermakovo on the banks of the Yenisei; around it the main embankment ...
The furnishings and look of each part of the building differed considerably. In this part of the building there are firmly fixed double bunk beds; ...
The northern half of prison building no. 4 with very well-preserved “wagon” type bunk beds. Each living quarters had a different interior and decor...
The dining hall at the Klyuch camp is one of the few buildings to have survived a fire in August 2013. However, it is in a poor state with a collap...
After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...
A solitary section of the smaller type found in most regular, relatively small labour camps intended for 500 or fewer prisoners. In the front part ...
Hard physical labour every day, poor food and difficult conditions in general at Gulag camps caused a great number of illnesses and injuries. These...
In every labour camp, there were also various workshops, storehouses, and work huts. Here, we are offering a tour of a carpentry workshop located i...
Solitary cells, officially called penal isolators, were an integral part of almost every labour camp. They served to punish prisoners for the sligh...
Besides a steam bath with a laundry, a disinfection room and drying room also played a role in preventive hygiene. These were mostly located in one...
After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...
This type of building measures 26m x 8m and is divided by an internal wall into two equal halves with separate entrances. Each part housed 40–50 pr...
The smooth operation of the camp was done from the administrative barracks, which kept accounts, a list of prisoners, and a summary of the work per...
The southern half of prison building no. 4 with very well-preserved “wagon” type bunk beds. Each living quarters had a different interior and decor...
The only preserved prisoners’ barracks in this camp differs from other camps chiefly in terms of having less interior decoration as well as its lay...
A solitary section of the smaller type found in most regular, relatively small labour camps intended for 500 or fewer prisoners. In the front part ...
Less than a kilometre southwest of Yermakovo an Ov-type locomotive stands on the remains of an embankment. Thanks to its comparative accessibility ...
The southern half of the prison building. By contrast with the other buildings in the Barabanicha camp, there are no locker rooms or washrooms by t...
This type of building measures 26m x 8m and is divided by an internal wall into two equal halves with separate entrances. Each part housed 40–50 pr...