Ust-Tsilma Historical Memorial Museum

The seasonal exhibition ‘Pain and Memory: The Ust-Tsilma District during the Years of Repression’ opened on 30 October, 2003, and can be visited every year during the Remembrance Days in October/November. The exhibition presents material from the Museums’ archives, such as documents, photographs, and letters. Items on display include an NKVD uniform and badges from the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition is designed to be expanded each year.

The Museum’s archives contain documentary material, mainly copies, concerning the expropriation of the kulaks (wealthy peasants) in the Ukhta-Tsilma Region and the history of the Soviet Germans and other categories of special settlers deported to the region. The copies were made during the research for the exhibition ‘Pain and Memory’; the original documents are kept in the archives of individuals and other museums, in particular in the Museum of the Glory of Labour of the Novy Bor Sovkhoz. The Ust-Tsilma Historical Memorial Museum does not keep a separate Gulag collection, but the relevant material is identified in the thematic catalogue of the general collection.