RMEC28BE–Two mugs with information recorded by prisoners during the deportation on the Gulag, June 1941. Latvia, Occupied.
RM2HXCFR1–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian author and outspoken critic of communism, in Cologne, Germany, meeting with reporters on February 14, 1974 after his expulsion from Russia. Solzhenitsyn is best known for The Gulag Archipelago (1973), the publication of which outraged the Soviet authorities. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp for writing derogatory comments in private letters to a friend, Nikolai Vitkevic, about Joseph Stalin's conduct of World War II.
RMGJG830–A group of hard-labor convicts in Siberia, Russia
RMAYPBG5–UKRAINE Central Asia Lvov Large wooden cross lays flat in front of crowd dedicated to Gulag victims of Lviv forced labour camp
RMBAY8DM–RUINS OF OFFICERS QUARTERS IN A GULAG LABOR CAMP NEAR AMGUEMA CHUKCHI PENNINSULA MAGADAN REGION USSR FORMER
RF2BWNDBN–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago, All three volumes, Polish edition full series, books set, title closeup. USSR labor camps literature
RM2E5BG68–Barbwire fence at Gulag Perm-36 / ITK-6 / Gulag Museum, Soviet forced labour camp near the village Kuchino, Perm Krai, Russia
RM2BG2PM7–Soviet Gulag. USSR. Circa 1937-1938. Kolyma Force Labor Camps prisoner miners vaygach island
RMFG57XR–Washington, DC., USA, May 1986. Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press in Washington just 3 month since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). n 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the DIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs and text one of the few remaining Soviet prison labor camps Credit: Mark Reinstein
RM2B2BEDB–Soviet forced laborers are taken to labor camps in Siberia in overcrowded freight trains. Undated photo, probably in the 1930s.
RMB6J254–Russian convict sentenced to hard labor in Siberia at age 65, 1880s. Hand-colored halftone of a photograph
RMTA2C64–Soviet convicts at work on the construction of the White Sea Canal from 1931-1933.
RM2A10YBK–Monument to Karlag Mass burials in Spassk, Kazakhstan.
RMP72WE5–English: Alexei Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Prime Minister) greets Felix Dzerzhinsky, Director of the OGPU. Context: From the early days of USSR, the State security agency (first called Cheka, then GPU/OGPU) became the important factor in conducting the government policies specifically directed to extinguish the resistance of class enemies/enemies of the people. Started as a temporary agency, GPU (later called NKVD and KGB) became monstrous organization operating the network of labor camps (GULAG), conducting prosecutions of entire ethnic and social groups and mass r
RF2C88A9Y–Postage stamp on a envelope N. Tagil - Leninurad. Woman worker, USSR, 1956
RMP567PX–Occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Recreation of gulag barracks where people on forced labor camps lived. 1941. Occupation Museum of Latvia. Riga.
RM2B02TAF–Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War II. He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and served as de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of the NKVD field units responsible for anti-partisan operations on the Eastern Front during World War II. Beria administered the vast expansion of the Gulag labor camps and was primarily responsible for overseeing the secret defense institutions known as sharashkas, critical to the war effort. He also played the dec
RMDDNW96–Occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Recreation of gulag barracks where people on forced labor camps lived. 1941.
RM2B02TAC–Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War II. He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and served as de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of the NKVD field units responsible for anti-partisan operations on the Eastern Front during World War II. Beria administered the vast expansion of the Gulag labor camps and was primarily responsible for overseeing the secret defense institutions known as sharashkas, critical to the war effort. He also played the dec
RMEC28CA–Gulag, Soviet forced labor camp. Prisoner's jacket, each deportee had an identification number assigned to them. Latvia.
RM2HXCFR5–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian author and outspoken critic of communism, in Cologne, Germany, meeting with reporters on February 14, 1974 after his expulsion from Russia. Solzhenitsyn is best known for The Gulag Archipelago (1973), the publication of which outraged the Soviet authorities. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp for writing derogatory comments in private letters to a friend, Nikolai Vitkevic, about Joseph Stalin's conduct of World War II.
RMGJG80N–A group of hard-labor convicts in Siberia, Russia
RMRHBGNK–Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974, after being exiled from the Soviet Union, in Langenbroich, West Germany where he was staying in the home of writer Heinrich Böll.
RMF8NWWX–Washington, DC.,USA 6th May 1986 Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington just 3 months since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). In 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs and Credit: Mark Reinstein
RMTA24RT–Portrait of GULAG commander of a Soviet labor camp in the Ural Mountains (undated picture)
RM2E5BG8J–Tourists visiting the Gulag Perm-36 / ITK-6 / Gulag Museum, Soviet forced labour camp near the village Kuchino, Perm Krai, Russia
RM2BG2PWK–Soviet Gulag. USSR. Circa 1937-1938. Kolyma Force Labor Camps Men at work on the Koylma Highway
RF2RHX9HY–Dolinka, Kazakhstan - August 17, 2023: Karlag Memorial Museum, located in the former headquarters building of the Soviet Gulag in Karaganda.
RMB2R930–uptar prison magadan region of russia cement works, siberia
RMB9BD8W–Aerial view of the deserted Stalin era gulag buildings from the Salekhard Igarka Railway in northern Siberia.
RMD9909R–Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008)[2] was a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system — particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, his two best-known works. For these efforts Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He returned to Russia in 1994
RM2A11149–Monument to Karlag Mass burialsin Spassk, Kazakhstan.
RM2B02X1G–Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were long suppressed in the USSR, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 and Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 'for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature'. He was expelled
RF2EA6EY9–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, speaking at a meeting of the AFL-CIO. USA. June 31 1975
RMDWM89Y–Leipzig, Germany. 11th Mar, 2014. A visitor looks at a jacket was used by Soviet prisoners at the exhibition 'Gulag. Traces and evidences' at the Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, 11 March 2014. The exhibition focuses on the history of the system of criminal and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union and runs from 12 March until 29 June 2014. Photo: PETER ENDIG/dpa/Alamy Live News
RMCWBXN0–Three Russian convicts building a camp near the Eastern Siberian Railroad. Throughout the 19th century, Russia populated its
RFME758X–St Petersburg, Russia - March 27, 2018. Monument to the Victims of Communist Terror in St Petersburg.
RM2KHKTJP–Recreation of the women, female prisoner cell, dormitory, barrack, sleeping quarters at the work, labor camp, gulag. At the Museum For The Victims Of
RMEC28CB–Gulag, Soviet forced labor camp. Prisoner's jacket, each deportee had an identification number assigned to them. Latvia.
RMEKPAAT–Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn visits the Memorial to Victims of Repression who died in the Gulag camps after arriving by train returning to his homeland from exile in America June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
RMB3X2P1–Old Soviet republics flags beside a modern Ukrainian flag waving over the pilgrim camp on the Solovetsky Islands, Russia
RMRHBGRB–Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974, after being exiled from the Soviet Union, in Langenbroich, West Germany where he was staying in the home of writer Heinrich Böll.
RMF8NWWM–Washington, DC.,USA 6th May 1986 Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington just 3 months since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). In 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs and Credit: Mark Reinstein
RM2JPDEAP–Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn speaking at a meeting of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., delivering his Warning to the West speech on June 30, 1975. (USA)
RM2E5BG5T–Barbwire and tourists visiting the Gulag Perm-36 / ITK-6 / Gulag Museum, Soviet forced labour camp near the village Kuchino, Perm Krai, Russia
RM2BG2PJW–Soviet Gulag. USSR. Circa 1937-1938. Kolyma Force Labor Camps. Prisoners of Soviet gulag. USSR. Circa 1936-1937
RF2RHX9MD–Dolinka, Kazakhstan - August 17, 2023: Karlag Memorial Museum, located in the former headquarters building of the Soviet Gulag in Karaganda.
RMTA292X–Forced laborers doing woodwork in a warehouse near Arkhangelsk.
RMB9BDDY–Aerial view of the deserted Stalin era gulag buildings from the Salekhard Igarka Railway in northern Siberia.
RFEH032X–The former soviet gulag camp of Perm36, west of the Ural range in Russia near the town of Perm. Fence.
RM2A110AM–Monument to Karlag Mass burialsin Spassk, Kazakhstan.
RMB3E4MD–SIBERIAN PRISON CAMPS MAGADAN REMAINS OF AN OLD PRISON CAMP SLAVE LABOR MINED URANIUM MANY DIED OF HUNGER AND RADIOACTIVITY 1991
RFM4AJ8W–Palm trees framed by chain link fence in prison, gulag, labour camp, school or unwanted institution. Dreaming of freedom.
RMDWM8A0–Leipzig, Germany. 11th Mar, 2014. A visitor looks at a pickaxe which was used by Soviet prisoners at the exhibition 'Gulag. Traces and evidences' at the Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, 11 March 2014. The exhibition focuses on the history of the system of criminal and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union and runs from 12 March until 29 June 2014. Photo: PETER ENDIG/dpa/Alamy Live News
RF2A118AD–The KarLag Museum in Dolinka, close to Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
RMB6J3B9–Russian convicts returning at night from the mines in Siberia 1880s. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RM2KHKTKB–Recreation of the women, female prisoner cell, dormitory, barrack, sleeping quarters at the work, labor camp, gulag. At the Museum For The Victims Of
RMTA29WC–Exiled women doing heavy physical work in a Soviet labor camp.
RMEKP9J0–Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn visits the Memorial to Victims of Repression who died in the Gulag camps after arriving by train returning to his homeland from exile in America June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
RMB3XWXM–Guarded window of the St Sergius Skete on the Big Muksalma Island on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, Russia
RMA7643P–GULAG forced labour camp in RECKS Hungary
RMF8NWX2–Washington, DC.,USA 6th May 1986 Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington just 3 months since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). In 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs and Credit: Mark Reinstein
RM2JPDEAW–Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn speaking at a meeting of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., delivering his Warning to the West speech on June 30, 1975. (USA)
RM2E5BG6D–Interior of prisoner's barrack / cell at Gulag Perm-36 / ITK-6 / Gulag Museum, Soviet forced labour camp near the village Kuchino, Perm Krai, Russia
RMC13K2Y–Three Russian convicts building a camp near the Eastern Siberian Railroad. Throughout the 19th century, Russia populated its easternmost territories with political and criminal prisoners. Ca. 1895 photo by William Henry Jackson.
RF2RHX9WE–Dolinka, Kazakhstan - August 17, 2023: Karlag Memorial Museum, located in the former headquarters building of the Soviet Gulag in Karaganda.
RMTA20YK–Entrance to the forced labor camp of the Moscow-Volga Canal. The camp is guarded by the GPU.
RMB9BDB9–View of the deserted Stalin era gulag buildings of the Salekhard Igarka Railway overgrown by trees in northern Siberia.
RFEH0331–The former soviet gulag camp of Perm36, west of the Ural range in Russia near the town of Perm. Fence.
RM2R51A77–Astana, Kazakhstan. 24th Apr, 2023. ALZhIR, the Akmolinsk Camp, Gulag labor camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland in Astana, Kazakhstan, April 24, 2023. Credit: Mikolaskova Lucie/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News
RMB3E4F6–SIBERIAN PRISON CAMPS MAGADAN REMAINS OF AN OLD PRISON CAMP SLAVE LABOR MINED URANIUM MANY DIED OF HUNGER AND RADIOACTIVITY 1991
RMDWM8D3–An original self-made holy picture (L) and a self-made matchbox-shell (R) which were produced and used by Soviet prisoners are on display at the exhibition 'Gulag. Traces and evidences' at the Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, 11 March 2014. The exhibition focuses on the history of the system of criminal and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union and runs from 12 March until 29 June 2014. Photo: PETER ENDIG/dpa
RF2A117JW–The KarLag Museum in Dolinka, close to Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
RMB6GR7B–Russian prisoners marched on a muddy road to exile in Siberia 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2KHKP3H–Recreation of a prisoner, worker sitting, posing for an identification photograph at the work, labor camp, gulag. At the Museum For The Victims Of Pol
RFB7FD7J–Soviet labor camp barrack display at Occupation Museum in Riga Latvia
RMEKPAA9–Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn visits the Memorial to Victims of Repression who died in the Gulag camps after arriving by train returning to his homeland from exile in America June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
RMB3XCKN–St Andrew's Church on the Zayatsky islands close to the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, Russia
RMA763WR–GULAG forced labour camp in RECKS Hungary
RMF8NWWR–Washington, DC.,USA 6th May 1986 Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington just 3 months since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). In 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs and Credit: Mark Reinstein
RMDFRRB2–Escape from Camp 14 by Shin Dong Kyuk and Blaine Harden
RM2B2BECC–Soviet forced laborers at forest work. Undated photo, probably in the 1930s.
RF2RHX9HD–Dolinka, Kazakhstan - August 17, 2023: Karlag Memorial Museum, located in the former headquarters building of the Soviet Gulag in Karaganda.
RM2E2R4RB–21 May 1991, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, USSR. A Russian German teenage boy, with his family, waits with their belongings inside the airport for days for their flight to Germany.
RMB9BDF6–Aerial view of the deserted Stalin era gulag buildings from the Salekhard Igarka Railway in northern Siberia.
RFEH030H–The former soviet gulag camp of Perm36, west of the Ural range in Russia near the town of Perm. Administrative building.
RM2R51A9Y–Astana, Kazakhstan. 24th Apr, 2023. ALZhIR, the Akmolinsk Camp, Gulag labor camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland in Astana, Kazakhstan, April 24, 2023. Credit: Mikolaskova Lucie/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News
RMB2R6AF–uptar prison magadan region, lunch of soup and bread, siberia, russia
RMKM531J–Model of Soviet forced labor camp in Ternopil Historical and Memorial Museum of Political Prisoners in Ternopil city, Ukraine
RMDWM89X–Leipzig, Germany. 11th Mar, 2014. An original self-made spoon (top) and a self-made knife with bony grip which were produced and used by Soviet prisoners are on display at the exhibition 'Gulag. Traces and evidences' at the Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, 11 March 2014. The exhibition focuses on the history of the system of criminal and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union and runs from 12 March until 29 June 2014. Photo: PETER ENDIG/dpa/Alamy Live News
RF2A11A0X–The KarLag Museum in Dolinka, close to Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
RFMARE38–Hokkaido, Japan - August 10, 2017: Interior corridor in one of the many cell blocks where political prisoners were held during the Meiji Era
RM2KHKP35–Recreation of the camera, film and photo equipment used for taking identification pictures at the work, labor camp, gulag. At the Museum For The Victi
RMAFWP5T–Bars on the windows of the Auschwitz prison camp in Poland. The Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum Death Camp Memorial in Oswiecim
RMEKPAAG–Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn visits the Memorial to Victims of Repression who died in the Gulag camps after arriving by train returning to his homeland from exile in America June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
RMB3XREG–Old Soviet republics flags beside a modern Ukrainian flag waving over the pilgrim camp on the Solovetsky Islands, Russia
RMA2YN2H–Solovetsky Monastery, Great Solovetsky island, White Sea, Russia
RMF8NWX3–Washington, DC.,USA 6th May 1986 Natan Sharansky Russian dissentient speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington just 3 months since he was released from a Soviet Gulag (Prison). In 1977 Sharansky was arrested on charges of spying for the CIA and treason and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Perm 35, a Siberian labor camp (Gulag). Sharansky appeared in a March 1990 edition of National Geographic magazine. The article, 'Last Days of the Gulag' by Mike Edwards, profiles through photographs Credit: Mark Reinstein
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