A.P. Popov Historical and Folk Museum of the Troicko-Pechorsk District

The permanent exhibition ‘The Troicko-Pechorsk Gulag Island’ opened in 2001. In a hall of 50 m 2 the visitor finds material from the Museum’s archives and from several private collections: photos, items of everyday camp life, parts of camp buildings and barriers (doors, bars, barbed wire), documents from the special commandant’s offices (in particular a register of the ‘special settlers’ dated 1946), original newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s (including papers from the Ukhta-Pechora camp), newspaper publications, maps of the ‘special settlements’ in the district. Two stands of the exhibition recount the expeditions of Museum staff and members of the Troicko-Pechorsk branch of the Ukhta-Pechora ‘Memorial’.

Parts of the collection have toured local schools.