Black and white photograph of a truck in snow on the road at Egvekinot-Iyl'tin, Chukotka.

Black and white photograph of a prisoner in heavy clothing hauling a water bucket from a well near the mine's gate at Kolyma, Magadan region.

Black and white photograph of men working in the snow at drilling operations in the basin of canal lock# 12 at the White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal. The 141-mile canal was built almost exclusively with manual labor and tools like those in this photograph.