A group photograph of participants in a Komsomol Conference in Marksshtadt (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for Germans in the Volga Region), taken in spring 1924. In the 2nd row are: 1) E.I. Schőnfeld (second on the left) 2) V.I. Schőnfeld, Second Secretary of the Canton Committee of the Komsomol...

A mincing-machine that belonged to a family of German special settlers – the Weber-Schuler family, who were exiled to the Iurga Region in Kemerovo oblast’ by the Decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 28.08.1941 “On the Re-settlement of Germans living in the Volga Region”....

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...

Anele Grigaliene on a sheep-breeding farm. 1949. Ten’ga Village, Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. Photo. Anele Grigaliene (1895-1968) and her son Romuald (born 1931) were deported from Lithuania on the 14th June, 1941 to the Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. She was released from Special Settlement...

Anele Grigaliene with her nighbours in exile. 1957. Ten’ga Village, Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. Photo. Anele Grigaliene (1895-1968) and her son Romuald (born 1931) were deported from Lithuania on the 14th June, 1941 to the Ongudaisk Region, Altai Province. She was released from Special Settlement...

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.

Portrait of a married couple, Ivan Vasil’evich and Apollinariia Vasil’evna Zikin taken on the 28.12.1911 in the village of Shuia (nowadays Prionezhskii region, Republic of Karelia). Under Soviet rule, I.V. Zikin was arrested twice (in 1933 and 1937), and shot in 1939. The portrait from the family collection...

A portrait of the merchant Ivan Vasilevich Zikin taken in 1912 in Arkhangel’sk. I.V. Zikin was twice arrested under Soviet rule (in 1933 and 1937) and was shot in 1939. The portrait is from the family collection and was given by N.P. Maevskaia to the Kem’ Municipal Local History Museum “Pomor’e”.

A portrait of Iurgan Ianovich Miurk (1913-?), a collective farmer from the Izhmorskii Region of Kemerovo oblast’, taken before his arrest in 1937. The photograph is kept in the Izhmorskii Region Local History Museum.

A Portrait of Leontii Trofimofich Cherniy (1890-?) with his wife (Elena Iakovlevna (nee Borodina) with their child, taken around 1910 in the municipal photo studio of the town of Mariinsk. The photograph is kept in the Izhmorskii Region Local History Museum.

The vase and the glass belonged to a family of German Special Settlers – the Weber-Schűler family – who were exiled to the Iurga Region of Kemerovo oblast’. The items were given to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum in 2005 on the occasion of an exhibition called “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo...