Days and Lives takes you inside the brutal system of forced labor concentration camps and the internal exile institution called the Gulag. Soviet authorities found the Gulag to be a useful tool in neutralizing, and often physically destroying, all real or imagined opposition to the Communist Party's dictatorship beginning in 1917. Since it also served as the main Soviet penal system, political prisoners were imprisoned with violent criminals. In the Stalin era, some 18 million people passed through the prisons and camps of the Gulag, and perhaps another 6 or 7 million were sent into exile. More than one and a half million prisoners died in the Gulag at the hands of their government. Even those who survived struggled to rebuild their lives when they were finally released.

Дни и жизни перенесет вас в самое сердце жестокой системы Гулага, включающей концентрационные лагеря принудительного труда и внутренние ссылки. Начиная с 1917 года, сoветские власти нашли в Гулаге удобный способ нейтрализировать, а часто и уничтожить физически, все настоящее и воображаемое сопротивление диктатуре Коммунистической партии. Так как Гулаг также служил основным местом отбывания уголовного наказания, политические заключенные отбывали его вместе с жестокими уголовниками. В эпоху Сталина около 18 миллионов прошли через тюрьмы и лагери Гулага, и около 6 или 7 миллионов были отправлены в ссылку. Более одного с половиной миллиона заключенных погибли в Гулаге от рук своего правительства. Те, кто выжил, с трудом восстанавливали свои прошлые жизни, когда, наконец, были освобождены из этой жестокой системы.

The Gulag Museum of Perm, Russia and the National Park Service (NPS) have formed a unique partnership to produce a traveling exhibit, Gulag: Soviet Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom. Highlighted in the exhibit is the history of one camp in Russia's Ural Mountains, Perm-36, and how Russians committed to preserving the memory of the Gulag have transformed the labor camp into a historic site and museum. This project is a partnership with the NPS, the Gulag Museum, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Tour a Gulag Camp: Perm 36 takes you inside a restored Gulag prison camp at the Gulag Musem at Perm 36, Perm, Russia. A video and audio tour, led by a museum guide, walk visitors through the former camp. Transcripts are available in both Russian and English languages.