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Gulag Online team

Štěpán Černoušek
chief coordinator, field research
stepan.cernousek@gulag.cz

Radek Světlík
GIS, field research
radek.svetlik@gulag.cz

Adam Hradilek
academic and archival research
adam.hradilek@ustrcr.cz

Jan Dvořák
academic and archival research
jan.dvorak@ustrcr.cz

Josef Brošta
3D graphic designer, visualisation
josuahanocri1@gmail.com

Jan Vrátný
programmer, graphic designer
jan@johanies.cz

Nela Srstková
coordinator of PR and accompanying activities
nela.srstkova@gulag.cz

3D camp tour

Travel through a Gulag camp and learn about the daily lives of prisoners in a correctional labour camp! The virtual tour enables you to visit all of the buildings in a camp; you will encounter authentic items of camp life and learn from survivors what everyday life was like for political prisoners in Stalin’s labour camps.

The history of the Gulag 

The creation of a system of concentration and correctional labour camps began in the Soviet Union in 1919 but “blossomed” during Stalin’s reign of ...

The Dead Road – research

During three expeditions (2009, 2011, 2013) we have mapped a total of 15 abandoned camps along the so-called Dead Road Railway – Gulag Construction...

Gulag camps in maps and satellite images

View camps along the Dead Road in satellite images and archival military maps. Thanks to the collection of maps that we have amassed to date, you c...

Panoramic tours

We recorded the interiors and exteriors of Gulag camps and remnants of the adjacent railway line construction using unique panoramic photographs. U...

Gulag Online — virtual museum

The Gulag Online virtual museum presents the basic form and dimensions of Soviet repression through a virtual reconstruction of a Gulag camp, speci...