Administrative building (Barabanikha labour camp)
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 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...
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...
A vast camp for an estimated 1,000 prisoners. Unlike the other camps mapped, this one includes a hospital, large clubhouse, dog kennels and several...
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 ...
A dilapidated camp on the Turukhan River. Alongside the construction of the railway line it was used in work on nearby drilling towers.
In every labour camp, there were also various workshops, storehouses, and work huts. Here, we are offering a tour of a carpentry workshop located i...
The depot lies 2.5 kilometres along the embankment from the abandoned town of Yermakovo on the banks of the Yenisei; around it the main embankment ...
The dining hall at the Klyuch camp is one of the few buildings to have survived a fire in August 2013. However, it is in a poor state with a collap...
Besides a steam bath with a laundry, a disinfection room and drying room also played a role in preventive hygiene. These were mostly located in one...
Guard dogs were an essential element of patrols at Gulag camps. Their pens were located outside the fenced area of camps. Ten wooden kennels have b...
River port on the River Yenisei in north-eastern Siberia. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to the Norillag camps. A...
Ermakovo is the location of the Yenisei correctional labour camps and Construction 503 (established: 5.2.1949; abolished 12.11.1949) and the Northe...
Remnants of a simple, unadorned entrance gate at a camp at the 96-kilometre point on the Turukhan River. To the right of the gate are ruins of the ...
Every camp had only one entrance: the main gate. Beside the gate was a gatehouse, of which one half was located inside the camp and the other half ...
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...
Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Hard physical labour every day, poor food and difficult conditions in general at Gulag camps caused a great number of illnesses and injuries. These...
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...
Labour camp on the rivulet Ketpar. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and an adjacent bridge.
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...
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...