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Rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge. BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp), 1930s. Found in 2004 in the area of locks 10 and 11 of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. Photo 10.08.2009.
 
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A rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge, used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp) during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bed of the canal in the area of locks 10 and 11, during construction and repair work. It...

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Segezha Municipal Museum Centre
 
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Self-made chisel. SegezhStroi. Found on the territory of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant (Segezha town, Karelia Republic). Photo 19.08.2005
 
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A self-made chisel, found in 1990 on the territory of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant (Segezha Town, Karelia Republic). A tool for prisoners who were construction-workers as the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Plant (Camp division No 4 of the Belomor-Baltiiskii Corrective Labour Camp) in the 1930s....

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Chisel for splitting stone. BelBaltLag (Karelia), 1930s. Photo 06.10.2004.
 
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The chisel for splitting stone was found in 1993 by Mariusz Wilk near a quarry on one of the islands of Lake Onega (Karelian Republic), where, in the 1930s, there was the camp section of the BelBaltLag (the camp of the White Sea- Baltic Sea Canal) . It is kept in the Museum of the Research and Information...

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Research and Information Centre "Memorial" (St Petersburg)
 
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Hammer. BelBaltLag, 1930s. Found in 2004 in the area of Locks Nos.10 and 11 of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. Photo 19.08.2009.
 
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Hammer – a tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag, used for the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, between Locks Nos. 10 and 11 during repair-works. It is part of the permanent exhibition in the Segezha Municipal Museum Centre....

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A mattock-head for work in cotton-plantations. A tool used in exile by Liny Shubertaite. Kuibyshev Region of the Tadzhik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1945. Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).
 
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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).

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Museum of Exile and Resistance / Tremties ir rezistencijos muziejus
 
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Pick. BelBaltLag, 1930s. Found in 2004 in the area of Locks Nos.10 and 11 of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. Photo 10.08.2009.
 
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A pick – a tool used by the prisoners of the Belbaltlag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found on the bottom of the canal in the area of Locks 10 and 11, during reconstruction and repair work. It is on show in the permanent exhibition...

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Pickaxe. From the 1930s. Found on the territory of former fields belonging to the agricultural section of the Kem’ division of the BelBaltLag at the beginning of the 1990s.
 
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A pickaxe. From the 1930s. Found on the territory of former fields belonging to the agricultural section of the Kem’ division of the BelBaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) at the beginning of the 1990s. It is kept in the Kem’ Municipal Local History Museum “Pomor’e”. (Photograph 19.08.2005).

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Bow-saw. ViatLag (Kirov oblast’). 1930s-1940s. Photo 19.12.2007.
 
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A bow-saw made and used in the 1930s-1940s in the timber expeditions of the ViatLag (Kirov oblast’). During the war a family of Leningrad evacuees, the Ponomarevs, obtained the saw in exchange for groceries from people living in the Kaisk region of Kirov oblast’. During the exchange, they were told...

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Spade. BelBaltLag, 1930s. Found in 2004 in the area of Locks Nos.10 and 11 of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. Photo 10.08.2009.
 
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Spade – tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Canal Camp) during the construction of the White Sea – Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, in the stretch between Locks 10 and 11, during repair-work. The spade is on show in the permanent exhibition...

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Stamp with the inscription “OGPU B.B.L. [BelBaltLag]. 1930s. The stamp was used for marking items produced by the garment industry in Vegeraksha. It was found during earth works by a person living in Kem’ (Karelian Republic) and was given to the Kem’ Municipal Local History Museum “Pomor’e” in 1991...
 
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A stamp with the inscription “OGPU B.B.L. [BelBaltLag][The OGPU White Sea-Baltic Camp]. 1930s. The stamp was used for marking packaging (sacks, bales and boxes) with items produced by the garment industry in Vegeraksha – one of the divisions of the BelBaltLag. It was found during earth works by a person...

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Kem’ Municipal Local History Museum “Pomor’e”
 
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A wheel from a wheelbarrow with a single wheel, used by prisoners during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was raised from the bottom of the canal in the area of Locks Nos. 10 and 11 in 2004, during work on the temporary draining of part of the canal for repairs and reconstruction...
 
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A wheel from a wheelbarrow with a single wheel which was used by prisoners during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 at the bottom of the canal, in the area of Locks Nos.10 and 11 during repair and restoration work. It is on permanent exhibition in the Segezha...

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