We commemorate the anniversary of the bloodily suppressed uprising in Vorkuta in July

July 24, 2024 | Virtual museum

One of the largest uprisings in the history of the Gulag broke out in July 1953 and culminated on July 22, when 1,500 prisone...

Interhelpo Kyrgyzstan expedition: We are looking for witnesses!

July 10, 2024 | Expeditions

We are going on an expedition to Kyrgyzstan following the footsteps of Soviet repression and the Czechoslovak commune Interhe...

70 years have passed since one of the most tragic uprisings in the Gulag

June 27, 2024 | Virtual museum

On Wednesday, June 26, we commemorated the anniversary of the suppression of the Kengir Uprising, one of the largest and most...

Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago

May 18, 2024 | Virtual museum

May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world, and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean ...

A new film and website mapping Soviet repressions in Kazakhstan

March 06, 2024 | Expeditions

The Soviet terror left an indelible mark in today’s Kazakhstan. More than one million Kazakhs died of famine and millions of ...

We are publishing the unknown story of a Czech woman imprisoned in the Gulag

February 28, 2024 | Czech memory of the Gulag

She was given metal by Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became a Soviet national artist) was taken a...

Brutal deportations of Chechens and Ingushs began 80 years ago

February 23, 2024 | Virtual museum

80 years ago, on February 23, 1944, the resettlement of Chechens and other Caucasian peoples to Central Asia began. Hundreds ...

“Memory of Repression”: A new project to search for data on Soviet terror

January 30, 2024 | Current Russia and Memorial

A search system named "Memory of Repression" has been launched at www.memsearch.org, w...

Gulag computer game is in the works

October 17, 2023 | Education

Our organisation has joined MEMENTOES, an international project that brings together memory and museum organisations with gam...

On 29 October, we took part in the Returning the Names event

October 11, 2023 | Returning the Names

The Returning the Names event is held annually on 29 October, on the eve of the Russian Day of Remembrance of the Victims of ...

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