The Historical-Memorial Complex in the settlement of Abez comprises a Memorial Cemetery, the largest of the former numbered cemeteries, and a Museum. The public Museum was created in 1989 on the initiative of the local historian V.V. Lozhkin. In the beginning the Museum was located in V.V. Lozhkin’s own home. In 1999 the cemetery was awarded the status of Memorial Cemetery; in the same year Museum was granted premises in the school building. The Museum hosts an exhibition on the history of the camps in Abez, displaying work tools and objects from the prisoners’ everyday life, photographs and biographical materials, copies of archival documents, contemporary photographs showing the remains of camp buildings and cemeteries, correspondence with relatives of Abez prisoners and with the MVD archives of the Komi Republic. In 2001 the Abez Museum became a department of the Inta Local History Museum. In 2004 the Museum moved from the school building to less suitable premises and as a result some of the particularly valuable exhibits were donated to the Inta Local History Museum for permanent storage. (Information from June 2010).