The Nenets were surprisingly able to preserve their traditional way of life during Soviet times. In December 1934, their first major uprising again...
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...
70 years ago, on June 26, 1954, one of the most important uprisings in the Gulag was suppressed. We have mapped its traces.
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...
One hundred years ago, the Evenks and Yakuts rose up against Soviet domination and created their own state
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...
24 February 2024 marks two years since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Russia is committing many crimes against the Ukrainian ...
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On February 23, 1944, the deportation of Chechens and other Caucasian nations to Central Asia began. Hundreds of thousands of people became victims...
The victims of the Gulag, executions, and deportations included more than one million Germans, approximately 700,000 Poles, and more than 20,000 Cz...
The Gulag and Soviet repressions are part of our common European history.
This year, the Saint Wenceslas Day marks the 85th anniversary of the execution of 80 innocent Czechs in Zhytomyr.
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...
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...
Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you...
The long-standing discussion regarding the scale of terror often relies on intuitive ideas about political terror in the Soviet period rather than ...
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...
History of Soviet repressions and victims of deportations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - a material for the occasion of June 14 deportation ann...
An article by Russian researcher and journalist Alexei Golicyn from Saratov about the Czech commune Reflector and the Soviet repression against its...
A javító-nevelő munkatáborok, illetve a koncentrációs táborok rendszerének létrehozása Szovjet-Oroszországban már 1919-ben megindult, de valójában ...
A Gulag.Online múzeumában a Gulag táborigazgatóságainak térképét is megtekinthetik, amely a Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР (Szisztye...
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...
Csehszlovák állampolgárok üldözése a Szovjetunióban
Lengyelek és lengyel állampolgárok a GULAG-on