Mandalada, or the Revolt of Reindeer Herders against the Soviet Government. It has been 90 years since the first Nenets uprising.

The Nenets were surprisingly able to preserve their traditional way of life during Soviet times. In December 1934, their first major uprising again...

The Norilsk Uprising - the longest and most massive protest in the history of the Gulag

The Vorkuta Uprising: "Human blood flowed down the ditches"

In July 1953, one of the largest uprisings in the Gulag broke out in Vorkuta "When I ran to the guardhouse, I froze in terror. There was a mo...

The Kengir Uprising: 70 years ago, tanks crushed a the Gulag prisoners´ rebellion

70 years ago, on June 26, 1954, one of the most important uprisings in the Gulag was suppressed. We have mapped its traces.

"When we left Crimea, everyone sang and cried." Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago

May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean Tatars - is about to ta...

The Tungus Uprising: the Siberian Revolt of Hunters and Reindeer Herders

One hundred years ago, the Evenks and Yakuts rose up against Soviet domination and created their own state

Expedition Kazakhstan: In the footsteps of gulags and Soviet repressions

Soviet terror left an indelible mark on today's Kazakhstan. Hundreds of Czechs were also affected by the repression there. We mapped these tracks i...

Mass deportations of Ukrainians: from history to Russia's modern crimes

24 February 2024 marks two years since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Russia is committing many crimes against the Ukrainian ...

"They were just throwing the corpses into the snowdrifts". The brutal deportation of Chechens and Ingush began 80 years ago

On February 23, 1944, the deportation of Chechens and other Caucasian nations to Central Asia began. Hundreds of thousands of people became victims...

The Gulag and Soviet repressions: the numbers of victims from among Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Germans

The victims of the Gulag, executions, and deportations included more than one million Germans, approximately 700,000 Poles, and more than 20,000 Cz...

Reflections on Soviet repressions in Central Europe

The Gulag and Soviet repressions are part of our common European history.

The biggest mass murder of Czechs in the USSR

This year, the Saint Wenceslas Day marks the 85th anniversary of the execution of 80 innocent Czechs in Zhytomyr.

The Magnificent One – Nikolai Braun and his poems against the invasion of 1968

This is the story of a Russian who faced Soviet tanks alone, being even lonelier than the globally renowned eight brave protesters. And he paid for...

Czechs and the Great Terror

The five-part documentary series Czechs and the Great Terror reveals the unknown fates of Czechs who were executed, deported or imprisoned in the G...

A Journey to the Gulag - documentary movie

Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you...

The scale of Soviet political terror

The long-standing discussion regarding the scale of terror often relies on intuitive ideas about political terror in the Soviet period rather than ...

3D gallery of objects from the Gulag

Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more – can be viewed now a...

Soviet repression and deportations in the Baltic states

History of Soviet repressions and victims of deportations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - a material for the occasion of June 14 deportation ann...

Historia Gułagu

System obozów koncentracyjnych oraz obozów pracy przymusowej, który zaczęto tworzyć od 1919 roku na terenach przyszłego Związku Radzieckiego a któr...

Leopold Brumek

Druhý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror „Prchajíce před kapitalistickým vykořisťováním a nezaměstnaností, přijeli před třinácti lety d...

Alexander Snovsky - Dead Track Prisoner

He never forgot and did everything he could to make sure it would not be forgotten. Arrested 1949 in Leningrad, sent to build a railway in northern...

Anton a Karel Šilhaví

Anton Šilhavý pomáhal elektrifikovat SSSR, zatčen v roce 1936, poslán na Kolymu a popraven. Karel Šilhavý pracoval v SSSR jako inženýr, zatčen 1938...

Gertrud Platais - German in female camp

In 1932, she left for the Soviet Union in the hope of a better life. In 1938 she was arrested and sent to the Alzhir women's camp in Kazakhstan. Sh...

Evženie Věsniková-Němečková - Family in the grip of the Gulag and the Gestapo

She received a medal from Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became the Soviet national artist) was taken away from her, and...

Adolf Kučera

Koncem 30. let se Sovětským svazem přelila brutální vlna státního teroru proti vlastním obyvatelům. Oběťmi byli často občané „podezřelých“ národnos...

Ivan Kováč - From Prague to the Gulag to Solzhenitsyn

The unknown story of a man abducted by the Soviets from Prague to the Gulag in 1948. There he led a successful revolt and inspired Alexander Solzhe...

Food bowl 2

Aluminum bowl for eating

Wheelbarrow

A wheelbarrow, or rather a shear (no wheel), to carry uranium ore in mines in a camp in the Marble Gorge.

Prisoner’s diary

Notebook with diary entries, technical drawings and diagrams.

New Year's letter

A New Year’s greeting for 1953 that we found unburned in the stove of an abandoned camp.

Work boot

Work boot from the Barabanikha cam