Dog kennels (Barabanikha labour camp)
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...
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...
Every camp had its own kitchen connected to a mess hall. In the camps we have explored most are located at the opposite end from the main entrance ...
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line. Burned down in August 2013.
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.
Latrines were among the most basic equipment of each camp and were always one of the first facilities to be built. There were mostly two communal l...
Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Has been home to a remand prison since the start of the 20th century.
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...
Less than a kilometre southwest of Yermakovo an Ov-type locomotive stands on the remains of an embankment. Thanks to its comparative accessibility ...