In Kineshma in Yamuseum, the exhibition of the Museum of the History of the Gulag began

The exhibition “It’s So Hard to Live Without You” tells about families affected by the mass repressions of the 1930s and 1950s.

The project is based on memories recorded by staff and volunteers of the Gulag History Museum during meetings with survivors of those events.

For display in Kineshma, the exposition was supplemented with materials about the fate of the residents of the city and the Ivanovo region. They were collected by members of the genealogical club “Prehistory”, which works at the museum. Family archives have preserved evidence of dekulakization, deprivation of voting rights, exiles and other turning points of the national history of the last century.

The traveling exhibition was a joint project of the Gulag History Museum and the NKVD Investigation Prison Memorial Museum.

You can visit the exposition in Kineshma until the end of May 2027.