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...
Miejsca zaznaczone na mapie związane są z historiami poszczególnych więźniów, przedstawionymi w sekcji Ludzie. Są na niej również przedstawione miejsca zdokumentowane podczas naszych wypraw – w prawym górnym rogu mapy znajduje się przycisk, za pomocą którego możliwe jest zmiana mapy podstawowej na satelitarną bądź szczegółową mapę wojskową. Czerwone punkty na mapie przedstawiają poszczególne obozy systemu Gułag.
Prison building 5a, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
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...
Prison building 4b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prisoners’ barracks at 96th kilometre labour camp
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Prison building 2b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
Prison building 1b, Barabanicha labour camp
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...
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...
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...
Prison building 5b, Barabanicha labour camp
The bunk beds and stove in the northern part of this building are largely destroyed. Cleaning equipment can be found in a utility room by the entra...
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,...
Bath and laundry (96th kilometre labour camp)
Quite a lot of attention was paid to hygiene in the Gulag camps. Among other reasons, this was done in order to prevent infections or outbreaks of ...
Railway bridge
The construction of railway bridges on the Salekhard-Igarka route was also completely ensured by prisoners. Here we offer a tour of a reinforced-co...
Archangielsk
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...
Charków
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...
Dudinka
River port on the River Yenisei in north-eastern Siberia. Transit centre for the transportation of prisoners and materials to the Norillag camps. A...
Iwano-Frankiwsk
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...
Janov-Stan
Yanov Stan is a meteorological station on the Turukhan River. One of the main construction centres during the building of the Dead Road.
Jarosław
At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Yaroslavllag) and POW camps.
Jekaterynburg
Formerly Sverdlovsk. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (the Sverdlovsklag) and POW camps.
Jermakovo
Ermakovo is the location of the Yenisei correctional labour camps and Construction 503 (established: 5.2.1949; abolished 12.11.1949) and the Northe...
Kijów
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...