The “Severnyi gorniak” [“Northern Miner”] newspaper was the organ of the Department for Culture and Education of the NKVD UkhtPechLag (Ukhta-Pechora Camp). It started to appear on 10.09.1931. It bears the stamp “Ne podlezhit rasprostraneniiu za predelami lageria” [“Not for Distribution outside the Camp”]....

The newspaper “Svobodnoe slovo” [“Free Speech”] was an underground edition produced in Russian by the Lithuanian Resistance. No.5. June, 1950. The leading article is “Litva i okkupant – Sovetskii Soiuz” [“Lithuania and the Occupying Power – the Soviet Union”]. This sample is kept in the Museum of Exile...

N.A. Miller. “The Story of a Search”. Drawing. 1955. Ukhta Region, Komi ASSR. Paper, pencil, charcoal. Nikolai Andreevich Miller (1922-1993) was an artist and a sculptor. He was sentenced to 25 years in the camps in 1948. He was imprisoned in the Komi Corrective Labour Camp, Komi ASSR (1948-1956). When...

A camp name tab belonging to Arvo Pesti (1956-2010). In the period 1984-1986 he was imprisoned in the Perm’ Political Camps (“Perm’-35”, “Perm’-37”). The name tab is kept in the Museum of the Occupation (Tallinn) to which A. Pesti donated it sometime after the year 2000. (Photo: November, 2010)