Map of Gulag camp administrations and stories from Central Europe

The Gulag.Online museum now also offers a map of Gulag camp administrations which was created on the basis of the Система исправительно-трудовых ла...

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...

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...

Panoramic tours

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

Models of Gulag camps

While mapping labour camps along the Dead Road we succeeded in reconstructing the precise form of five of them. They differ from one another consid...

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...

Zofia Daniszewska (Kłusek)

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...

Franciszek Michał Amałowicz „Tatar”

Born in Poland in 1903, doctor and oficer of Polish Army in the rank of major. Arrested in November 1944 by Polish communist. In December 1946 sent...

Karol Hučko

Born in 1926 in Šaľa in Slovakia. His father worked as a hired labourer while his mother looked after Karol and three siblings at home.

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.

New Year's letter

A New Year’s greeting for 1953 that we found unburned in the stove of an abandoned camp.

Food bowl 2

Aluminum bowl for eating

Suitcase - Pavel Zoc

Suitcase with which Paul Zoc returned from a Gulag camp back to Czechoslovakia

Prisoner’s diary

Notebook with diary entries, technical drawings and diagrams.