Federal Penitentiary Service
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The Federal Penitentiary Service is a federal agency of the Ministry of Justice of Russia responsible for correctional services.
Color coating of a FSIN vehicle (GAZelle)
FSIN Special Forces during a FAB Defense training exercise
Gulag
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The Gulag was a system of labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from
Federal Penitentiary Service
…Russian Empire founded in 1879, and directly succeeds the correctional services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union including the Gulag agency. The Federal Penitentiary Service is considered to be successor to the Main Prison Administration, established on 27 February 1879 as the first…
A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945
Genrikh Yagoda (middle) inspecting the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal, 1935. Behind his right shoulder is Nikita Khrushchev.
The fence at the old Gulag camp in Perm-36, founded in 1943, turned into a museum.
Central shop in Norilsk built by prisoners of the Norillag