Grozny

Guard tower and water tank

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...

Idyakha labour camp

Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.

Infirmary (Barabanikha labour camp)

Hard physical labour every day, poor food and difficult conditions in general at Gulag camps caused a great number of illnesses and injuries. These...

Ivano-Frankivsk

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...

Kazakhstan

Ketpar labour camp

Labour camp on the rivulet Ketpar. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and an adjacent bridge.

Kharkiv

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...

Kiev

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...

Kirov

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...

Kitchen, mess hall, clubhouse (96th kilometre labour camp)

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 ...

Klyuch labour camp

Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line. Burned down in August 2013.

Kotlas

A transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to camps on the territory of the Komi Autonomous Socialist Republic. Starting po...

Krasnoyarsk

At various periods was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yeniseilag, Tayozhlag, Zhelezlag) and POW camps.

Kyrgyzstan

Kyzylorda

Latrine (Terraska labour camp)

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...

Leninogorsk

Limbyayakha labour camp

Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.

Litoměřice

Has been home to a remand prison since the start of the 20th century.

Locomotive at bridge over Turukhan River

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...

Locomotive no. 1, Yermakovo

Less than a kilometre southwest of Yermakovo an Ov-type locomotive stands on the remains of an embankment. Thanks to its comparative accessibility ...

Locomotive No. 2 in Ermakovo

After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...

Locomotive No. 3 in Ermakovo

After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...

Lubyanka

Lubyanka is a prison on the same name square in Moscow's Meshchanskiy district.