Solitary section at Terraska labour camp
A solitary section of the smaller type found in most regular, relatively small labour camps intended for 500 or fewer prisoners. In the front part ...
The following items and documents illustrate various forms of Soviet repression and Gulag camps. They are a selection of items mapped during expeditions, archival materials and objects and documents belonging to individual survivors.
Solovetsky Islands
In the 1920s and 1930s the OGPU’s Solovetsky correctional labour camp was the most important part of the USSR’s camp system. Its camp complex was i...
Stalin’s Pantheon
The ruins of a famous pantheon in honour of Stalin built in the village of Kureyka, where he was exiled under the tsar.
Starobilsk
From September 1939 the former convent of the Holy Trinity housed a camp primarily intended for interned Polish Army officers and Polish state admi...
Store
Ancillary buildings were located outside the fenced camp territory. These included stores, bakeries and electric power stations, alongside faciliti...
Stryi
From October 1939 to June 1941 an NKVD prison and interrogation centre. After the war served as a camp for POWs and People’s Commissariat of Intern...
Terraska labour camp
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Tomsk
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tomsklag, Voroninlag) and POW camps.
Torgau
Tyumen
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Tyumenlag) and POW camps.
Ukhta cemetery
Cemetery for prisoners of Ukhtizemlag who died in Camp hospital no. 7 in Ukhta.
Vladivostok
Far East port city. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vladlag) and POW camps. The city al...
Vologda
At various periods the city was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vologdalag) and POW camps.
Watchtower (Klyuch labour camp)
Watchtowers were mostly located on each corner of the labour camp. In larger camps, with a perimeter bigger than the usual 150 metres x 150 metres,...
Yanov-Stan
Yanov Stan is a meteorological station on the Turukhan River. One of the main construction centres during the building of the Dead Road.
Yaroslavl
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yaroslavllag) and POW camps.
Yekaterinburg
Formerly Sverdlovsk. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Sverdlovsklag) and POW camps.