Memoire-des-repressions-politiques-en-Russie-postsovietique. About the project - Mapping the Gulag - Russia's prison system from the 1930s to the present. The maps on this site are organised at a series of descending spatial scales from macro level down to micro and historically for the period 1931-1960 and 2005.
Series 1 - 3 relate to the period 1931-1960. At the national scale the site includes maps of the distribution of the main administrations of the gulag for the USSR and Russian Republic (Series 1), and estimates of average prisoner population for a series of consecutive periods (Series 2). Using new data, we have been able to map the distribution of the sub-division or otdeleniye of the camp administrations in a series of oblasts - Perm', Magadan, Chukhotka, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk - in 1952 (Series 3).
We have provided two overlay maps, of the distribution of permafrost and the average January temperature to show the geographical environment, in which penal institutions have been located at various times. Series 4-6 relate to the current penal system in the middle of the 2000s. Uacrisis (@uacrisis)