Black and white photograph of skulls exhumed and arranged in rows. All were victims of Stalin's repression at Donetsk.

Black and white photograph of rear view of Lefortovo Prison, Moscow, showing trucks in back driveway and rear entrances.

A.A. Merekov sketch, "Despair of a Prisoner" drawn at Kolyma.

Drawing by A.A. Merekov created at Kolyma.

Part of a triptych, "Joy, Bliss, Frost" painted at Kolyma, ca. 1937-1946 by A. A. Merekov. From a series of drawings made in camp and later outlined with India ink.

Black and white photograph of Evgenia Ginzburg.

This color photograph of the interior of a penalty isolator (ShIzo) cell at Perm 36 illustrates the austere conditions that prisoners endured. Prisoners living in the general barracks could be sentenced to time in the penalty isolator, basically a prison within the camp, for failing to follow camp rules, refusing to work or at the whim of camp guards or administrators.

Photograph of Salekhard-Igarka Prison cell interior taken from hallway.

Photograph of the interior of Lubyanka Prison.

Photograph taken March 2006 at the Gulag Museum at Perm 36 in the Maximum Security Zone which in the post-Stalin era held many of the most famous prisoners from the Soviet human rights (dissident) movement.