A landscape, watercolour-painted by an unknown prisoner of Administration of the North-East Corrective Labour Camps, signed with the initials “M.S.” (“M.C.” in Cyrillic). The picture was given to the prisoner Elena L’vovna Vladimirova (1902-1962) on the Kolyma in the second half of the 1940s. After...

A letter by Solomon L’vovich Entin (1892-1947), a political prisoner, to his relatives, written on the 13.10.1947 in the prison hospital of Vladimir Prison, a few days before his death. The letter was kept by the family in their father’s memory. In 2004, Larisa Solomonovna Krutilova (born 1927), Entin’s...

A letter from a housemother working in children’s home No.1 in Vol’sk, Saratov oblast'. Dated 2 February, 1955. It is addressed to Eleonora Iosifovna Mozolevskaia-Nikiforova, mother of her ward, Alisa Nikiforova. Alisa was born on 17 March, 1949 in camp section No.4 in the MinLag (Komi ASSR). Alisa’s...

A petrol cigarette-lighter, made in the first half of the 1940s by an unknown prisoner of the Inta Camp (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). It belonged to Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1899-1989), a doctor in the Camp Hospital in Inta, during his imprisonment and exile. In 1995, N.A. Glazov’s...

Lists of Lithuanian Special Settlers according to their barracks. Khramtsovka Settlement, Cheremkhovskii region, Irkutsk oblast’. End of the 1940s – beginning of 1950s. Manuscript. Kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Double wooden crucifix. Made by an unknown political prisoner in a camp in Taishet. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). Given to the Museum by Petronėlė Aksamitauskaitė, a former political prisoner (Photo December, 2010).

Rim-lock from a cell-door in the “Kresty” prison (St Petersburg, 5-7 Arsenal’naia Naberezhnaia [Arsenal Embankment], 8 ul. Komsomola). Locks of this type have been used to lock cells from the 1920s to the present time. This lock was given to the St Petersburg “Memorial” scientific information centre...

A log crib – a fragment of a construction for the reinforcing of the side-walls of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, in the area of Locks 10 and 11 during repair and restoration-work. It is on show in the permanent exhibition at the Segezha Municipal...

A lime-kiln inspection hatch. 1940s to 1950s. Camp Section Dzhintui, PechorLag (Komi ASSR). The Camp Section was in existence from 1939 to 1957. The main type of work done there was extraction of limestone for producing lime. Next to the quarry there were ovens in which firing (calcining) took place....