Institution under the Moscow Department of Culture
The Exhibition ‘The History of GULAG. The System and the Victims’ Opened at the Prokhorovka Field Memorial
10 november 2018
On November 8, the exhibition “The History of the GULAG. The system and the victims’ opened in the Belgorod region.
The exposition presents a chronology of events from the first Soviet years until the end of the 1950s, with the main stages of the camp system, and statistics of the total number of prisoners across different periods.
The interactive map of the GULAG featuring 550 camp formations with geographical, historical and economic details demonstrates the geography and the scale of the camp system. A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the memories of eyewitnesses of the epoch - prisoners of camps and members of their families, which were directly affected by repression.
The exhibition demonstrates the importance of preserving the historical memory of terror and the GULAG, to contribute to a deeper understanding and understanding of the Soviet period of Russian history.
The exhibition will run until January 31, 2019
The exposition presents a chronology of events from the first Soviet years until the end of the 1950s, with the main stages of the camp system, and statistics of the total number of prisoners across different periods.
The interactive map of the GULAG featuring 550 camp formations with geographical, historical and economic details demonstrates the geography and the scale of the camp system. A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the memories of eyewitnesses of the epoch - prisoners of camps and members of their families, which were directly affected by repression.
The exhibition demonstrates the importance of preserving the historical memory of terror and the GULAG, to contribute to a deeper understanding and understanding of the Soviet period of Russian history.
The exhibition will run until January 31, 2019