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....
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.
Petrozavodsk
City in north-western Russia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Petrozavodsklag) and POW ...
Prison building 1a, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 1b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 2b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 3b, Barabanicha labour camp
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; ...
Prison building 4a, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 4b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 5a, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 5b, Barabanicha labour camp
The bunk beds and stove in the northern part of this building are largely destroyed. Cleaning equipment can be found in a utility room by the entra...
Prisoners’ barracks at 96th kilometre labour camp
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...
Prisoners’ barracks (Ketpar labour camp)
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...
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...
Railway bridge
The construction of railway bridges on the Salekhard-Igarka route was also completely ensured by prisoners. Here we offer a tour of a reinforced-co...
Relatively comfortable prisoners’ barracks
This building is intended for prisoners, though it has more comfortable conditions than prevailed at most large barracks. It is less than half the...
Salekhard
Salekhard is the locaction of the Ob correctional labour camp and Construction 501 (established 5.2.1949; abolished 12.2.1954).
Shuchy labour camp
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Skole
From October 1939 to June 1941 an NKVD border interrogation centre and a manufacturing camp for POWs, mainly Poles. The camp was located in provisi...
Solitary cell in Barabanikha labour camp
Solitary cells, officially called penal isolators, were an integral part of almost every labour camp. They served to punish prisoners for the sligh...
Solitary section at labour camp at 96th km
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 ...
Solitary section at Terraska labour camp
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 ...
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...
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.
Starobilsk
From September 1939 the former convent of the Holy Trinity housed a camp primarily intended for interned Polish Army officers and Polish state admi...
Store
Ancillary buildings were located outside the fenced camp territory. These included stores, bakeries and electric power stations, alongside faciliti...