
11th kilometre labour camp
A regular labour camp intended for use in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and a bridge across the nearby Barabanicha rivulet.
A regular labour camp intended for use in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and a bridge across the nearby Barabanicha rivulet.
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Labour camp. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Camp on the riverulet Bludnaya. When the railway construction project came to an end it was abandoned here.
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
A dilapidated camp on the Turukhan River. Alongside the construction of the railway line it was used in work on nearby drilling towers.
Labour camp on the Turukhan River. Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line and an adjacent bridge over the Makovskaya River.
The southern half of the prison building. By contrast with the other buildings in the Barabanicha camp, there are no locker rooms or washrooms by t...
Atypical labour camp. Probably used in the maintenance of railway equipment.
Work camp used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line. Nearby is a quarry that was the source of sand used in the construction of ...
Less than a kilometre southwest of Yermakovo an Ov-type locomotive stands on the remains of an embankment. Thanks to its comparative accessibility ...
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 only preserved prisoners’ barracks in this camp differs from other camps chiefly in terms of having less interior decoration as well as its lay...
The southern half of prison building no. 4 with very well-preserved “wagon” type bunk beds. Each living quarters had a different interior and decor...
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...
This type of building measures 26m x 8m and is divided by an internal wall into two equal halves with separate entrances. Each part housed 40–50 pr...
After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the entire construction of the railway from Salekhard to Igarka was hastily mothballed and abandoned. Cons...
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...
Used in the construction and maintenance of the railway line.
Solitary cells, officially called penal isolators, were an integral part of almost every labour camp. They served to punish prisoners for the sligh...
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 ...
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...
Intended for prisoners, this was the most common type of building in every camp. This type of barracks measures 40 m x 8.5 m and is divided into fo...
This punitive camp is located some distance from the remnants of the railway embankments and is relatively inaccessible. It does not appear on a mi...
This type of building measures 26m x 8m and is divided by an internal wall into two equal halves with separate entrances. Each part housed 40–50 pr...