Wagner's color pencil sketch illustrating the Port of Nagaevo. Ore loading facilities are in foreground on the shore of the mostly-iced over bay. This illustration is on the reverse of the image titled "Magadan."

Painting by Georgi Karlovich Wagner, from the series "Kolyma," Magadan, 1946-1947.

Painting by Georgi Karlovich Wagner, from the series "Kolyma," Magadan, 1946-1947.

Color Pencil sketch of Kolyma Magadan Camp by Georgi Karlovich Wagner. On the reverse there is the image of "Bukhta Nagaevo". Wagner spent years of imprisonment working in the gold mines at Kolyma. As an art historian, he produced an album of scenes of the camps during his time there.