New documentary about the Russian Memorial society, the history of its liquidation and the extremely difficult situation in which its employees found themselves after the start of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine. Many of them were forced t...

Executions, deportations to Siberia, physical abuse, slave labor in GULAG camps - this was the Soviet reality under Joseph Stalin. Millions have become victims. Among them were thousands of Czechs. Over the past year, we have collected several stories t...

The exhibition is dedicated to Sandarmokh, a forest massif in Russian Karelia where thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. It also tells the story of Sandarmokh discoverer Yuri Dmitriev who is now imprisoned by the current Russian ...

Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more – can be viewed now as three-dimensional models in a newly opened 3D gallery.

Every year, on October 29, on the eve of the Russian Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, we commemorate the names of those who died as a result of Soviet state terror. Among the millions of victims in the USSR are thousands of Czechs or ci...

We organize expeditions to locations of former Gulag labour camps during which we document the camps’ current form. To date we have conducted four expeditions to Siberia. In August 2009, March 2011 and September 2013 we mapped the remnants of Gulag camp...

The aim of the international project Central European Map of the Gulag, which was carried out during 2016, is to recall the tragic fates of citizens of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary who fell victim to the Gulag and the Soviet regime of repression. ...