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001: This is a timber exchange and me with my brigade of criminals.

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002: This is when our guards rolled up to us for an inspection.

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003: My brigade after a work day.

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004: This is the shift of my brigade of lumberjacks. To the left is the Captain, who brought the brigade to the site "Osadochnyi" (The Settlement).

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005: A shot for the ages: Convicts eating caviar by the spoonful, because there was nothing else to eat. No salt or bread either.

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006: My brigade with our "balok" (Siberian mobile dwelling) in the background.

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007: The construction of the extension to the "balok" (Siberian mobile dwelling) for me personally.

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008: Installing the runners for carrying the timber load to its shipment. This photo was on the front page of the New York Times.

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009: Timber exchange. Me with my brigade. June 1981., 1981

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010: Here is my main job - I had to loop 5-6 branches with a metal cable which the bulldozer would then drag to the timber exchange.

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011: My brigade is building a "balok," that is, a house in which we will have to live at "Osadochnyi" (The Settlement), as we call the clearcut place (101 km. from... Ararat). It's incredible, but a large "balok" could be built in less than a 24-hour day.

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012: (clockwise from top left) Loading the timber exchange. Shipping the timber exchange. Me driving the "Kirovets," nicknamed the "Squid." My brigade at the timber exchange.

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013: This is how we handled a shipment of "balans" (logs), that is, the six-meter timbers. [You had to] tie the "pokata" (runners) well, that is the rails for dragging the logs during shipping.

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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].

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015: Me with my brigade of forest fellers--all with serious criminal offenses (murder, robbery).

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016: "Ararat" 1983, June. Rock workshop., 1983

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017: Swimming in the river Yama, May 1982., 1982

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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

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019: These are the Kolyma "roads," that is, there were no roads, and passage was made possible by the mountain streams. Our all-terrain vehicle damaged its caterpillar track, could move no further, and we spent 4 hours repairing the track in icy water.

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020: "Ararat" prison camp. 1982. Smoke break., 1983

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021: This is how larch trees are felled on the Kolyma [River].

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022: The Kolyma [River] is of striking beauty. 6 September 822 [sic, 1982?].

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023: This is one of the most frightening events on the Kolyma [River]: frazil ice. This is when the streams from the mountains turn into pipes of ice. Due to the frost, these pipes get thinner and thinner, which causes a blockage of these vessels, while the water pressure remains constant. An explosion then takes place, and the water pours out along the top surface, which forms a multitude... of branches which are boiling hot (+2° C) compared to the ice (-50° C), and the frost right then seizes the surface of the stream, and the water is once again in a pipe, so a driver doesn't know where that stream goes, and tractors or cars fall through the thin, newly formed layer of ice. This means destruction for the car, since it is almost impossible to rescue it until summer.

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024: Beauties of the Kolyma region.

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025: Winter 1982. Before loading. T= -44° C., 1982

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026: Osadochnyi (The Settlement)--101 km from Ararat 1982-1983. Winter loading of the "balans" (logs) onto the timber hauler. -43° C.

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027: Here are the kinds of "balans" (logs) that we had to carry. Because of this I have 7 herniated discs in my spine.

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028: Lawrence Tobin (UConn '82) and George Mikhailov, 1987., 1987

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Correspondence, Russian, undated Box 1, Folder 1

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Digital Print Photographs, undated, 1987-2005 Box 1, Folder 11

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Fonds Der Freien Russichen Gegenwartskunst, 1987, 2005 Box 1, Folder 2

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Georgi Mikhailov Collection, undated, 1982-2005

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Newspaper and Periodical Clippings, English, 1987 Box 1, Folder 3

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Newspaper and Periodical Clippings, German, 1987 Box 1, Folder 4

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Newspaper and Periodical Clippings, Japanese, undated Box 1, Folder 5

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Newspaper and Periodical Clippings, Russian, undated Box 1, Folder 6

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Photographs, Black and White, undated Box 1, Folder 7

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Photographs, Color, undated (1982-1983] Box 1, Folder 8

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Photographs, Georgi Mikhailov, undated [1982-1983] Box 1, Folder 9

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Photographs, Negatives, undated [1982-1983] Box 1, Folder 10

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