GULAG museum

The museum is dedicated to the millions who were persecuted in Soviet labour camps in 1930-1950 - in the so-called Gulag system. Nobody can ever stay indifferent to the theme it describes. The five-storey museum shows personal effects of Gulag prisoners, the dimensions of prison cells, and original doors from camps in remote northern territories. On entering the museum visitors hear the chilling clank of cell doors being shut and loud footsteps in prison corridors. A huge map of Russia shows the camp locations - described in detail in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's chronicle The Gulag Archipelago. An estimated 20 million people died during Stalin's reign of terror.