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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lukas Holata. Josef Brosta. Miroslav Procházka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Gulag camps represent unique archaeological sites; due to their remoteness, dozens of them are preserved in Siberia in exceptional quality – with still-standing buildings, interior furnishings, and numerous artifacts often found as de facto refuse. Together with a rich collection of prisoners' memories, it provides detailed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radek Světlík. Lukáš Holata.

This paper presents the methodological approaches and results of the expedition for documentation of abandoned Gulag camps and uranium mines in Kodar mountains where prisoners mined uranium for the first Soviet atomic bomb. The main goal of the expedition was to document these places for the purpose of creating a virtual tour and reconstruction in order to make it possible for the general public to visit places that are otherwise virtually inaccessible. We have been using a combination of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radek Světlík. Štěpán Černoušek. Josef Brošta. Jan Vrátný.

The Gulag Online virtual museum presents the basic form and dimensions of Soviet repression using a multidisciplinary approach and implementation of the results of previous expeditions mapping the remnants of correctional labour camps along the so-called Dead Road railway. Thanks to the extreme remoteness and desolation of the Northern Siberia region, many of these camps have been preserved to this day. We have mapped a total of 15 abandoned camps in various stages of decay. The virtual museum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret A Comer.

            As recent battles over the fate and meaning of the gulag site in Perm have shown, gulag heritage in Russia remains highly dissonant.  Questions of how to manage and interpret former gulags have become increasingly politically charged in the last few years, following a brief thaw during the perestroika and glasnost periods.  The island site of the infamous Solvetsky Gulag offers an illuminating case study of the struggles of stakeholders – monks, other island residents, tourism...