The building of a former barracks for special settlers in the settlement of Maiak (now within the limits of the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk in Kemerovo oblast'), to which deportees – German labour army workers– were transferred in the 1930s and 1940s. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal...

A cross in the graveyard of special settlers in the settlement of Gornyi (now part of the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo oblast’). After 1931 the settlement was used for settling dekulakized peasants from Bashkiria, Moscow oblast’ and other areas of the country, and after 1941, German special settlers...

A Delegate’s Pass for the Iurga Municipal Council of Workers’ Deputies, issued on 25.04.1963 in the name of Lidiia Petrovna Gets. L.P. Gets (born 1929), had been a special settler in the Iurga region and stayed on to live and work in Iurga after her special settler’s status was revoked in February 1956....

A group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets had been a special settler in the Iurga region since 1945, her special settler status...

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...

Lists of Lithuanian Special Settlers according to their barracks. Khramtsovka Settlement, Cheremkhovskii region, Irkutsk oblast’. End of the 1940s – beginning of 1950s. Manuscript. Kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A mattock-head for work in cotton-plantations. A tool used in exile by Lina Šubertaitė (born 1925). Kuibyshev Region of the Tadzhik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1945. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

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”....

Objects made out of mammoth-bone –a mouthpiece, a paper-weight, a buckle, a thimble, some buttons and a comb. They were made by the Černecki brothers when they were in exile. Settlement Bykov Mys on the coast of the Laptev Sea, Yakutia, between 1944 and 1947. They are kept in the Museum of Exile and...

Portrait of N.S.Zhirov (alias Liudvig Khizov), a German special settler and honorary miner in one of the mines in the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk in the Kemerovo obast’, taken in 1950. The photograph is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum.

Railway-tickets for the Krasnoyarsk-Moscow train, dating from the 1950s. They belonged to the Liesiai family, when they were returning to Lithuania from exile. The Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo 2005).

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...