A photograph of a family of special settlers, de-kulakized and exiled from Chuvashia. It was taken in 1935 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk in the Mariinskii Region of the West-Siberian Krai (Administrative Region). It is on show in an exhibition in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

A suitcase containing tools for making boots. It belonged to Kazimiras Juskenas, who was deported along with his family from the Zarasai okrug of Lithuania to Siberia. K. Juskenas died in Siberia. When his son was released from exile he brought the suitcase and the tools back to Lithuania. The suitcase...

A photograph of the Administration of the SegezhStroi from the “Inspection Album for Photographic Records of SegezhStroi No.1”, made on 1 April 1936 in the Segezha Settlement, in the Medvezh’egorsk Region of the Karelia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Photographic records of the construction of...

A.A. Lisovskii’s application to the editor of the newspaper “Severnyi gorniak”[ “Northern Miner”], A.S. Briukhanov, is dated the second half of August, 1936. Referring to a report in the newspaper for 16.08.1936, prisoner Aleksandr Alekseevich Lisovskii is applying for the post of one of the compilers...

An application by A.P. Kaze to the head of the Vodniy water-mine of the Ukhta Industrial Complex of the MVD, Engineer-Captain D.B. Burov. Dated 02.07.1946. A.P. Kaze, an engineer of the technical planning section of the Vodniy water-mine, reports that in May, 1942, his prison term ended, and he was...

Application by I.A.Bagmut to the head of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp, State Security Senior Major Ia.M. Moroz, dated 7 October 1936. The prisoner Ivan Andrianovich Bagmut asks to be involved in the compilation of a collection on the exploitation of the natural resources and the industrialisation of the Ukhto-Pechora...

The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A photograph of a barrack-block of Section No.3 of Camp Division No.4 in the BelbaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) taken between 1936 and 1938 in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk Region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A photographic record of the construction of the...

Bedspread with lace insets. 1950s. Made by Elena lginaite-Miežetienė in exile in Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). Given to the Museum by Elena lginaite-Miežetienė in 2006 (Photo 2010).

A bench from the house of the special settler family Tserr, who were exiled to the workers’ settlement of Iurga, in Kemerovo oblast’. It was made in Iurga in the 1940s or 1950s. In 2000 Iosif Tserr (born 1939) gave it to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum, where it became part of the permanent...

A birth certificate for a child of prisoner M.S.Shutova. Dated 12.01.1942, signed by the head of maternity home No.2, Tomsk. Mariya Sergeyevna Shutova (1905-1999) gave birth to a daughter while in Tomsk transit prison on 02.01.1942. She was then transferred to the Iaia division of the Administration...

A rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge, used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp) during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bed of the canal in the area of locks 10 and 11, during construction and repair work. It...

Blanket. RechLag, Pit No.8 (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Late 1940s- early 1950s. It belonged to the political prisoner P. Tamošiūnas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A board from a camp barrack of the SibLag, with the inscription “Zdes’ sidel sledstvie 6 m Mel’chakov Petr” [“Here was imprisoned investigation 6 months Petr Mel’chakov”]. It was found by an inhabitant of the Miliutino Settlement, in Iurga Region, Kemerovo oblast’, during earthworks. It is kept in the...

Booklet accompanying the “Maternal Glory” Medal, Class III, awarded to Bronislava Rudgalvienė. 16.10.1956, Buryat-Mongol ASSR. B. Rudgalvienė had been deported from Lithuania and was living as a special settler in the settlement of Novoil’insk in the Zaigraevo Region of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR. The booklet...