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...
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...
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...
River port on the River Yenisei in north-eastern Siberia. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to the Norillag camps. A...
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...
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...
Formerly Sverdlovsk. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Sverdlovsklag) and POW camps.
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...
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.
A Polish city after WWI, it was occupied by the Red Army at the end of September 1939. From October 1939 to June 1941 housed several NKVD prisons a...
Has been home to a remand prison since the start of the 20th century.
Prison on Lukiškės Square in Lithuania’s Vilnius. From June 1940 to July 1941 an NKVD prison. After the Nazi occupation used by the Gestapo. From 1...
A port city in north-eastern Siberia in the Far East. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to camps in the area of the ...
Town in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central-southern Ukraine where ore mines were located. Captives mined manganese ore in the mines of the Nikopo...
Former medieval castle that has served as a prison since the mid 19th century. Following the war held collaborators with the Nazi regime; after 194...
Port city in north-western Russia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Kollag) and POW camp...
From October 1939 to June 1941 an NKVD border prison and interrogation centre.
City 400 km beyond the Arctic Circle. In 1935–1956 it was the centre of the Norillag (Norislk correctional labour camp). Prisoners mainly worked in...
City in south-western Siberia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Siblag, Novosibirsklag, ...
City in south-western Siberia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Omlag, Omskstroy).
Prison built at the end of the 19th century. After February 1948 political opponents of the Communist regime were imprisoned and executed there.
Railway station that became a town in 1949. From 1940 the main centre of the Sevpechlag (1940–1950) and Pechorlag (1950–1959) Gulag camp complexes....
City in north-western Russia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Petrozavodsklag) and POW ...