A bench from the house of the special settler family Tserr, who were exiled to the workers’ settlement of Iurga, in Kemerovo oblast’. It was made in Iurga in the 1940s or 1950s. In 2000 Iosif Tserr (born 1939) gave it to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum, where it became part of the permanent...

Box. The work of Political Prisoner Vladas Bure. Arkhangel’sk. 1956. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A box and two albums. They belonged to Jone Nagliene, a political prisoner. Spassk Section of Peschani Camp (Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast', Kazakhstan). 1955. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A box used as a head-rest for prison bunks. It was used for keeping the prisoner’s property and foodstuffs. On the inside of the lid there are notes in pencil (dates an numbers – probably the days remaining or time already done in days). The box was found in 1989 by an expedition run by the Lithuanian...

A device for making felt. It belonged to E. Mižutavičienė when she was in exile in the Tit-Ary Settlement (Yakutia). Between 1942 and 1957. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Poker. A tool used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (the White Sea-Baltic Canal Construction Camp), used for work on the building of the White Sea- Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 at the bottom of the canal in the area between locks 10 and 11 during repair work. It is on permanent exhibition...

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...

Home-made coat hanger. 1940s-1950s, USVITL (Administration of the North East Corrective Labour Camps). Found in 2006 on the territory of the Verkhnii Kanion (Upper Canyon) (Srednekansk Region of Magadan oblast'), a former sub-section of the Administration of the USVITL, during an expedition organized...

The home-made device for catching fish was found in the area of the Vorkuta-Vom jetty in 2004 during a school local history expedition led by I.V. Vitman and O.A. Gudovanyi. It is kept in the History and Geology Museum “A Town in the North of Russia” in School No.14. (Vorgashor Settlement, Vorkuta)....