
A man in one of the premises of the punishment cell (punishment cell) of camp No. 76 at the Glukhariny crossing
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Camp tower at the Shchuchiy crossing, used by guards to monitor the perimeter of the camp zone
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Drawing on the door in a solitary cell
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Cyanotype print from an archival photograph. Women's brigade at the 501st construction site Salekhard - Nadym. 1952 (presumably). From the collection of the I. S. Shemanovsky International Exhibition Complex
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Remains of the railway depot
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A spoon found on the territory of the former camp sites of the 501st construction site. Cyanotype print
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Barbed wire found on the territory of the camp. Cyanotype print
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Remains of a building on the territory of a former camp point at the Glukhariny crossing
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Volunteers are cleaning the territory of camp point No. 93 at the Shchuchiy crossing
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Birch tree in the window of one of the abandoned barracks of the camp point
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The operating railway section Chum - Labytnangi, built as part of the 501st construction. Kharpa District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
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Barbed wire in one of the camps
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Visitors to the open-air museum “Lagpunkt Glukhariny”
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Alexey Mazurin, senior researcher at the I. S. Shemanovsky Museum
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Signpost on the territory of the open-air museum site “Lagpunkt Glukhariny”
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Remains of a building on the territory of a former camp site
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A jar of water left by volunteers
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Lyudmila Lipatova conducts a tour of places associated with the history of the 501st construction site
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“Cyanotype print from an archival photograph. Construction of the railway in the north of Ob. From the collection of the I. S. Shemanovsky International Exhibition Complex
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Volunteer on the territory of camp point No. 93 at the Shchuchiy crossing
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An employee of the I. S. Shemanovsky Museum collects berries near the open-air museum “Lagpunkt Glukhariny”
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Volunteers carry out work on the territory of the former camp point No. 93 at the Shchuchiy crossing
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Historian, local historian and writer Vadim Gritsenko near the preserved buildings of camp point No. 93 at the Shchuchiy crossing
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A perfume bottle found during an expedition on the territory of the 501st construction site. Cyanotype print
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Telephone and telegraph communication line poles covered with snow, which were installed along the entire Chum - Salekhard - Igarka railway. Cyanotype print from an archival photograph. From the collection of the I. S. Shemanovsky International Exhibition Complex
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A key found during an expedition on the territory of the 501st Gulag construction site. Cyanotype print
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Communications building No. 3 near Yarudei station
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Ivan Georgievich, living in one of the buildings on the territory of the former residential village near Yarudey station
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A dog named Taiga
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Cyanotype print from an archival photograph. View of the steam locomotive that was the first to cross the new railway bridge across the Vorkuta River near the Obskaya station. Author F. I. Pochkin. From the collection of the I. S. Shemanovsky International Exhibition Complex
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A wooden tablet found during an expedition on the territory of the 501st Gulag construction site. Cyanotype print
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Meeting the first train at the Pristan crossing in the village of Labytnangi. Author F.I. Pochkin. From the collection of the I. S. Shemanovsky International Exhibition Complex. Cyanotype print from an archival photograph
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A shed with firewood near Vasily’s house

Butterfly on coals on the territory of the camp point near the Glukhariny crossing
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