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 box made by an unknown prisoner in PechorLag (Komi ASSR) in 1950 for Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1907-1989). In 1950 N.A. Glazov, a former political prisoner, was working as a doctor in the camp infirmary. His family (his wife and a daughter) lived with him in Inta. The box with the dedicatory...

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...

An official memo from the assistant director of the Administrative and Finance Section and the Labour Section, N.V. Shnurkovskii, to the deputy director of OGPU Industry No.2 of the UkhtPechLag, D.G. Khomiakov, dated 21.09.1933. Stamped “Secret”. It contains a report about the urgent need to provide...

A portrait of Lev L’vovich Davydov (1899-1974), Head of the Medical Section in Vodnyi Settlement. In the period 1934-38 he was a prisoner in the Ukhta-Pechora Camp. The photo was taken at the beginning of the 1930s. It is kept in the Museum of the History of the Vodnyi Settlement.

A portrait of Masao Matsuda (1915-after 1984), a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, taken in May 1945. The photograph was sent with a letter to S.S. Korobchenko, a doctor in the municipal hospital of Anzhero-Suzhdensk. In the letter, M.Matsuda expresses his gratitude to the Doctor for saving his life....

Portrait of Masao Matsuda (1915-later than 1984), a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, taken in Japan in 1984. The photograph was sent with a letter to SS. Korobchenko, a doctor in the municipal hospital of Anzhero-Sudzhensk. In the letter M. Matsuda expresses his gratitude to the doctor for saving his...

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...