A photograph of the Administration of the SegezhStroi from the “Inspection Album for Photographic Records of SegezhStroi No.1”, made on 1 April 1936 in the Segezha Settlement, in the Medvezh’egorsk Region of the Karelia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Photographic records of the construction of...

The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A photograph of a barrack-block of Section No.3 of Camp Division No.4 in the BelbaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) taken between 1936 and 1938 in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk Region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A photographic record of the construction of the...

A birth certificate for a child of prisoner M.S.Shutova. Dated 12.01.1942, signed by the head of maternity home No.2, Tomsk. Mariya Sergeyevna Shutova (1905-1999) gave birth to a daughter while in Tomsk transit prison on 02.01.1942. She was then transferred to the Iaia division of the Administration...

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...

A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...

A wooden box, made in 1947 by an unknown prisoner in the Nyrob Corrective Labour Camp (NyrobLag, Molotovskii Region, Perm’ oblast'), given to Kseniia Kharlampievna Gornushkina (1914-1991) by prisoner friends. In 1995, K.X. Gornushkina’s husband, Evgenii Aleksandrovich Rudakovskii (1913 – post-1995)...

A box made by an unknown prisoner in PechorLag (Komi ASSR) in 1950 for Nikolai Aleksandrovich Glazov (1907-1989). In 1950 N.A. Glazov, a former political prisoner, was working as a doctor in the camp infirmary. His family (his wife and a daughter) lived with him in Inta. The box with the dedicatory...

Burial of a child of Lithuanian exiles. 1956. Novoselovo region, Krasnoyarsk district. The photograph is kept in the Panevezys Local History Museum (Panevezys, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum in 1988. (Photo December, 2011).

The burial of Aligis Kirshki, a student and Lithuanian exile. 1955. Krasnoyarsk. The photograph is kept in the Panevezys Local History Museum (Panevezys, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by O.Permanaviciute-Slesoraitene in 1992. (Photo December, 2011).

A capsule for a “ksiva” (secret note) made in 1985 in Camp VS 389/36 (Kuchino village, Chukovsk region, Perm oblast’) by the political prisoner Grigorii Zinov’evich Isaev (born 1943) for the political prisoner Rostislav Borisovich Evdokimov (born 1950). Evdokimov put a “ksiva” containing a chronicle...

A certificate issued by the Special Commandant’s Office MVD Komi ASSR in the name of Antanas Stepanavicius (more accurately: Staponavicius, born 1901). Dated 30.12.1955. Inta (Komi ASSR). Issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History...

A certificate from the MVD Special Commandant’s Office in the name of Bolis Bagdonas (born 1912). Dated 29.12.1955, Inta (Komi ASSR). Issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum (Komi Republic).

A certificate issued by the MVD Special Commandant’s Office, Komi ASSR in the name of Ionas Pecheliunas (born 1915). Dated 29.12.1955. Inta (Komi ASSR). It was issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum, Komi Republic.

A certificate from the MVD Special Commandant’s Office, Komi ASSR, in the name of Jurgis Adomaitis (born 1912). Dated 28.12.1955, Inta (Komi ASSR). It was issued for presentation to the police authorities in exchange for a passport. It is kept in the Inta Local History Museum (Komi Republic).