Search

Start Over Collection Georgi Mikhailov Collection, undated, 1982-2005

014: Our guards came to the timber cutting site 1-2 times per year in search…of supplies of caviar, which the convicts would bury in moss in the frozen ground. All the rest of the time we were without guards and we fed ourselves by hunting and fishing. (This was categorically forbidden and they returned our brigade to the Zone [the prison camp].

  1. University of Connecticut -Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center
  2. Georgi Mikhailov Collection, undated, 1982-2005
  3. Digital Print Photographs, undated, 1987-2005

018: Ararat. 1983, August. Building the restricted area. The "boss" is the head of the camp, Nikolai Mikhailovich Lomakin, who tried to help me in every way, for which he was rewarded... with two stars (incomplete performance of service). Retired in St. Petersburg. Worked for me as deputy director of management section. (The Boss is outlined on back of photograph, figure on the far right.), 1983

  1. University of Connecticut -Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center
  2. Georgi Mikhailov Collection, undated, 1982-2005
  3. Digital Print Photographs, undated, 1987-2005