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...

Russia

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...

Stryi

From October 1939 to June 1941 an NKVD prison and interrogation centre. After the war served as a camp for POWs and People’s Commissariat of Intern...

Tashkent

Terraska labour camp

Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.

Tomsk

At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tomsklag, Voroninlag) and POW camps.

Torgau

Tyumen

At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tyumenlag) and POW camps.

Ukhta cemetery

Cemetery for prisoners of Ukhtizemlag who died in Camp hospital no. 7 in Ukhta.

Ukraine

Vladivostok

Far East port city. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vladlag) and POW camps. The city al...

Vologda

At various periods the city was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vologdalag) and POW camps.

Watchtower (Klyuch labour camp)

Watchtowers were mostly located on each corner of the labour camp. In larger camps, with a perimeter bigger than the usual 150 metres x 150 metres,...

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.

Yaroslavl

At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yaroslavllag) and POW camps.