Building of the club for the Vodniy water-mine (OGPU Water-mine [Promysel] No 2 of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp). The author of the drawing is unknown. 1936. It is kept in the Museum of the History of the Vodniy Settlement. (photograph 2007)

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 portrait of Ivan Dmitrievich Karakash, director of the choir of the Vodnyi settlement. Taken at the beginning of the 1950s. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement.

A portrait of Ivan Dmitrievich Karakash, director of the choir of the department for culture and education (KVCh) of OGPU Industry No.2. Late 1930s. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement.

A portrait of I.K. Shamborskii, director of an amateur string orchestra in OGPU Industry No.2 in UkhtIzhemLag (Vodnyi Industry). Drawn in the 1940s by an unknown artist. A photocopy of the drawing is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement (Photo 2007).

A portrait of Boris Konstantinovich Rerikh (1880-1945) drawn by Nikolai Evgene’vich Lansere (1879-1942) in the OGPU Internal Prison in Leningrad (25, Shpalernaia Street). Dated 05.01.1932. The architects N.E.Lansere and B.K. Rerikh, who were in prison at the time, worked in OKTB-12 (Separate Construction...

A portrait of Rut (Eva) Filippovna Smirnova, prisoner of the UkhtPechLag, and pianist of the club at Vodnyi Industry in 1946-1948, taken at the end of the 1950s. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement.

Sketch of the title-page of “the Half- Yearly Report on the activity of the Technical Section of the Economics Department” of the Plenipotentiary Representation of the OGPU to the Leningrad Military District. It is dated 13.08.1932. It was drawn up by the imprisoned architect Nikolai Evgenevich Lansere...

A drawing (“A Game of Chess”) done by Nina Alekseevna Lekarenko (1911-1995) in Tomsk Camp for family members of traitors to the Fatherland in 1938 or 1939. According to the artist, the sketch from life depicts contemporaries in the Camp, who were the wives of astronomers under punishment. In 1993 N.A....

The picture (“Winter Landscape”) by Marcel-Mariia Georgievna Koente (1898-1971) was drawn between 1950 and 1952, when she was in prison in Kargopol’ Camp (station Ertsevo, Arkhangel’sk oblast’) and was sent to Leningrad accompanied by a letter. In 2004, M.G. Koente’s daughter, Natalia Sergeevna Gabaeva...