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...

A group photograph of railway workers with a “Shch” series locomotive in the background. It was taken in 1921. One person, N.I. Malev, is identified in the picture (first on the left in the second row) and there is an inscription that reads “Malev N.I. arestovan sent. 1938” [“N.I. Malyev, arrested April,...

The marble model of the first (wooden) Lenin Mausoleum belonged to Professor Il’ia Venediktovich Slavin (1883-1938). After the arrest of I.V. Slavin the new owners of his flat smashed the model and threw out the pieces. I.V. Slavin’s daughter, Ida Il’inichna Slavina (born 1921), glued together the...

An official memo from the director of the Accounting and Distribution Section of the Administration of the UkhtPechLag N.K. Merkulov to the director of Industry No.2, I.K. Danilovskii, dated 03.05.1934. It bears the stamp “Secret”. It contains an instruction concerning the necessity of holding prisoners...

A portrait of Aleksei Vasilevich Danilov (born 1903), a driver at the Tomsk railway Taiga Station train depot. It dates from 1935. The photo is kept in the Museum of Military and Labour Glory of the Municipal Educational Institution “General Secondary School No. 34”. It was given to the Museum by the...

A portrait of Efim Efremovich Chupurov in 1938 in Nikolaevsk-na-Amure. A soldier in the Red Army, E. E. Chupurov, who took part in the Soviet-Finnish War in 1939-1940, was demobilised in June, 1941, but was soon arrested in 1942 for failure to appear at mobilisation. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk...

A portrait of I. Boiakov, the former manager of the Anzher Mine. The photo is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum, exhibited in a show-case dedicated to the inhabitants of Anzhero-Sudzhensk who fell victim to the repressions.

A prize silver watch with the inscription “Stoikomu sashchitniku Proletarskoi Revoliutsii ot RVS SSSR” [“To a steadfast defender of the Proletarian Revolution from the Revolutionary Military Soviet of the USSR”] that belonged to Evgenii Viktorovich Agokas (1881-1960). In January 1930, at the time of...

Nail-scissors, belonging to Mira Aleksandrovna Fainiut (1907-2002), who in 1939-1947 was a prisoner in the Kolyma Camps. In 1937, M.A. Fainiut was given a five-year camp term and in April, 1938, together with her seven-month-old daughter, was sent from Iakutsk to the Administration of the North-East...