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,...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for February 1928. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all)...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for 1930. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all) and printed...

Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for 1930. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all) and printed...

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...

A mosaic portrait of I. Stalin created in 1936 by Aleksei Feodosevich Vangengeim (1881-1937), a prisoner of the Solovetskii Camp, as a present to his daughter Eleonora. The portrait turned out to be the last present received by the family from their father, who was shot on 03.11.1937. In 2004 Eleonora...

A portrait of Tat’iana Kuzminichna Ruzaeva (married name Rogash), who, from the second half of 1941, was employed as a guard in Camp Section No.4 of the Mariinsk Section of the Northern Kuzbass Corrective Labour Camp. The photograph is kept in the Izhmorskii Region Local History Museum.

A postcard made from birch bark with a coloured picture, which Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1897-1899), a doctor who was a prisoner in the Medical Village of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp (Chibiu, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) sent from the camp to his daughter Margarita. It is dated 05.05.1937....

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...