140th kilometre labour camp
Labour camp. 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.
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.
Administrative building (Barabanikha labour camp)
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...
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...
Azerbaijan
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...
Bath and laundry (96th kilometre labour camp)
Quite a lot of attention was paid to hygiene in the Gulag camps. Among other reasons, this was done in order to prevent infections or outbreaks of ...
Borjomi
Bridge over Barabanikha river
Bridge over Penzeryakha river
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.
Carpentry workshop and storehouse
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...
Depot
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 ...
Dining hall, Klyuch labour camp
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...
Disinfection and drying room (Barabanikha labour camp)
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...
Dog kennels (Barabanikha labour camp)
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...
Dudinka
River port on the River Yenisei in north-eastern Siberia. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to the Norillag camps. A...
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...
Gate
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 ...
Gatehouse and gate (Ketlar labour camp)
Every camp had only one entrance: the main gate. Beside the gate was a gatehouse, of which one half was located inside the camp and the other half ...