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Administration building of the SegezhStroi. Segezha settlement, Medvezh’egorsk region, Karelia ASSR. Photo 1 April 1936.
 
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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...

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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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Gantry at Segezha Station. Photograph. 1936
 
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Photograph of the gantry at Segezha Station (Medvezhegorsk Region, Karelian Autonomous SSR). Taken in 1936. Photography of the construction of the Segezha Cellulose and Paper Combine and of the town of Segezha was undertaken by a special section of the photo-technical Pffice of the NKVD Belbaltlag (White...

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The first hotel of the Segezha Settlement, Medvezhegorsk region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Photo taken on 26.09.1937.
 
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Photograph of a hotel under construction in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, taken on 26.09.1937. The construction and finishing work was carried out by women prisoners of the Segezha corrective labour camp. The photographs of the construction...

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Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”]. 1930. No.3, March. Photo 19.08.2005
 
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Journal “Karelo-Murmanskii krai” [“Karelo-Murmansk Region”], No.2 for 1930. The sub-heading reads: “Kraevedcheskii obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskii illiustrirovannyi zhurnal” [ “A Local History Socio-Economic Illustrated Journal”]. It was published between 1927-1935 (there were 95 issues in all) and printed...

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Log crib. BelBaltLag, 1930s. Found in 2004 in the area of Locks Nos.10 and 11 of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. Photo 19.08.2005.
 
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A log crib – a fragment of a construction for the reinforcing of the side-walls of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was found in 2004 on the bottom of the canal, in the area of Locks 10 and 11 during repair and restoration-work. It is on show in the permanent exhibition at the Segezha Municipal...

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Official memo from prisoner I.I. Ginzburg to the assistant director of USEVSLON, Ia. M. Moroz. Page 1. Chib’iu settlement, 1930. Photo 21.02.2007.
 
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An official memo from imprisoned geologist Il’ia Isaakovich Ginzburg (1882-1965) addressed to the assistant director of the Administration of the Northern Special Purpose Camps, Ia.M.Moroz. It is dated 31.01.1930, Chib’iu Settlement. It contains a description of preparatory work on the construction...

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Official memo from the director of Supplies in the OGPU UkhtPechLag to the director of the TEK (the Technical and Operational Column) concerning the limits on the distribution of bread for the first decade of April. Chib’iu Settlement, 1930s. Photo 21.02.2007.
 
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Official memo from the director of Supplies in the OGPU UkhtPechLag to the director of the TEK (the Technical and Operational Column) of Industry No.2 (the radium mine), concerning the limits on the distribution of bread for the first decade of April (year not given). There are also instructions on...

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An official memo from the official representative of the 3rd Section, Shestakov, to the director of Industry No.2, Danilevskii, on the subject of deficiencies in the work of several sub-sections. UkhtPechLag, 1933. Photo 21.02.2007.
 
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An official memo from the official representative of the 3rd Section, Shestakov, to the director of Industry No.2, Danilevskii, dated 31.12.1933. It is an official report on the deficiencies in the work of several sub-sections of the Industry and the reprehensible conduct of a number of employees, with...

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A.M. Romanenko and his wife Mariia. Vodnyi Settlement, 1933.
 
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A portrait of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Romanenko (born 1896), drilling expert of Industry No.2 of the Ukhta-Pechora Camp, with his wife, Mariia, taken in 1933 in the Vodnyi Settlement. The photograph is kept in the Museum of the History of Vodnyi Settlement.

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Shock-worker’s record book issued on 10.05.1936 in the name of Ivan Fyodorovich Kovyrnov, a prisoner in a camp. Photo 06.07. 2005.
 
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Record book of a shock-worker of a corrective labour camp in the name of prisoner Ivan Fedorovich Kovyrnov (born 1905), issued 10.05.1936. The camp’s name has not been established. It is kept in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum and exhibited on the stand “Repressii 1930kh” [“Repression...

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