‘Archaeology of Gulag’, or A brief story about our expeditions
Why do we organize expeditions to abandoned Gulag camps? What do these trips bring? What specific conclusions can they help us reach?
The Gulag Online virtual museum presents the basic form and dimensions of Soviet repression through a virtual reconstruction of a Gulag camp, specific life stories, selected objects, documents and texts. We have attempted to deliver a representative selection of essential information; our ambition is not to cover every detail of the Soviet system of repression.
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3D gallery of objects from the Gulag
Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more – can be viewed now a...
Soviet repression and deportations in the Baltic states
History of Soviet repressions and victims of deportations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - a material for the occasion of June 14 deportation ann...
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 o...
Czech Commune "Reflektor" in the USSR: History of Betrayal
An article by Russian researcher and journalist Alexei Golicyn from Saratov about the Czech commune Reflector and the Soviet repression against its...
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 ...
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...
Czechoslovak citizens and the Gulag
Information about Czechs and Czechoslovak citizens repressed in USSR
Panoramic tours
We recorded the interiors and exteriors of Gulag camps and remnants of the adjacent railway line construction using unique panoramic photographs. U...
The Marble Gorge - documentation and photogrammetry
During the 2016 expedition, we mapped the Borsky ITL camps using the photogrammetry technology to create 3D models of objects and buildings.
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...
people
Jiří Bezděk
Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...
Jozef Bobalik
Born in 1928 in the east of Slovakia. In 1947 his family left for the Soviet Union. In 1948 arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Gulag
Henryka Milewska (Drobik)
Born in 1925 in Stanisławów (todany Ivano-Frankivsk). Deported with mother to Kazakchstan in 1940. Worked in sowchoz as a tractor driver. Released...
Imrich Gablech
Born in 1915. Fled to Poland in 1939 as a military aviator. Arrested by Soviet soldiers and sentenced to five years in the Gulag. Released in 1941.
Irena Saulutė Valaitytė-Špakauskienė
1928 born in Kaunas, Lithuania. 1941 deported to Siberia, she spent 1 year in Altai region, 5 years on islands in northern Yakutia. In 1958 she cam...
items
Food bowl 2
Aluminum bowl for eating
Suitcase - Pavel Zoc
Suitcase with which Paul Zoc returned from a Gulag camp back to Czechoslovakia
Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow, or rather a shear (no wheel), to carry uranium ore in mines in a camp in the Marble Gorge.
Prisoner’s diary
Notebook with diary entries, technical drawings and diagrams.
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New Year's letter
A New Year’s greeting for 1953 that we found unburned in the stove of an abandoned camp.