Locomotive No. 3 in Ermakovo
After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...
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...
The remains of a guard tower and, from the other side, a tank for fire-fighting in the Ketlar camp. In the case of the guard tower only the support...
After Stalin’s death in March 1953 the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily shelved and abandoned. We can theref...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
River port on the River Yenisei in north-eastern Siberia. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to the Norillag camps. A...
In 1917–1934 capital city of the Ukrainian SSR. It was home to several prisons and GPU, OGPU and later NKVD interrogation centres. From 1945 to 195...
Previously known as Stanislaviv. A Polish city after WWI, it was occupied by the Red Army at the end of September 1939. From October 1939 to June 1...
Formerly Sverdlovsk. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Sverdlovsklag) and POW camps.
From 1934 capital of the Ukrainian SSR. Home to two large burial grounds of victims of political repression and executions from the Great Terror pe...
City in the northeast of the European part of Russia, formerly known as Vyatka. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several sm...
A transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to camps on the territory of the Komi Autonomous Socialist Republic. Starting po...
At various periods was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yeniseilag, Tayozhlag, Zhelezlag) and POW camps.