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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.

Tin can 1

Coffee can

Medicine bottle

Glass medicine bottle

Work glove 3

Cloth work glove

Food bowl 1

Aluminum bowl for eating

Razor

Improvised razor made from a board and blades

Knife and sharpener

Fragment of a knife and sharpener, likely secretly self-produced by a prisoner.

Name card - Vladimir Francevich Vesseris

Every prisoner had his own specific place on the bunks. This was marked by a sign stating the following information: name, patronymic, surname, yea...