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 ...
‘Archaeology of Gulag’, or A brief story about our expeditions
Why do we organize expeditions to abandoned Gulag camps? What do these trips bring? What specific conclusions can they help us reach?
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...
Czech Commune "Reflektor" in the USSR: History of Betrayal
An article by Russian researcher and journalist Alexei Golicyn from Saratov about the Czech commune Reflector and the Soviet repression against its...
The history of the Gulag
The creation of a system of concentration and correctional labour camps began in the Soviet Union in 1919 but “blossomed” during Stalin’s reign of ...
Map of Gulag camp administrations and stories from Central Europe
The Gulag.Online museum now also offers a map of Gulag camp administrations which was created on the basis of the Система исправительно-трудовых ла...
Gulag camps in maps and satellite images
View camps along the Dead Road in satellite images and archival military maps. Thanks to the collection of maps that we have amassed to date, you c...
Czechoslovak citizens and the Gulag
Information about Czechs and Czechoslovak citizens repressed in USSR
Poles and Polish citizens in the Gulag
Information about Poles and Polish citizens in the Gulag
Hungarians in Soviet captivity
Information about Hungarian citizens in the Gulag
Panoramic tours
We recorded the interiors and exteriors of Gulag camps and remnants of the adjacent railway line construction using unique panoramic photographs. U...
The Marble Gorge - documentation and photogrammetry
During the 2016 expedition, we mapped the Borsky ITL camps using the photogrammetry technology to create 3D models of objects and buildings.
The Dead Road – research
During three expeditions (2009, 2011, 2013) we have mapped a total of 15 abandoned camps along the so-called Dead Road Railway – Gulag Construction...
The history of the Dead Road
The construction of the railway began in 1947 and most of the workers (up to 100,000 according to some estimates) comprised prisoners from Gulag la...
Sources and literature - Gulag Online museum
List of publications and sources which were used for the creation of texts and content of the Gulag.Online Museum.
Select bibliography on the Gulag
The bibliography includes essential publications in print devoted to the subject of the repressive apparatus and prison system of the Soviet Union,...
Katyn Massacre: The removed memorial also commemorated Czech victims
In the Russian city of Tver, at the beginning of May 2020, two commemorative signs commemorating the executed Soviet citizens and also part of the ...