Where next for our film Buried Hopes?

April 26, 2025

Our new film from the exepdice following the traces of Soviet terror and the fate of Czechoslovaks in Kyrgyzstan has had a successful premiere. We are now preparing further screenings and talks. Don't miss them!

100 years since the arrival of the first transport of Czechoslovaks to Soviet Kyrgyzstan

April 05, 2025 | Buried Hopes - documentary (2025) | Expedition Kyrgyzstan

In the spring of 1925, hundreds of our compatriots traveled thousands of miles in harsh conditions to the remote steppes in t...

Pre-sale for the gala premiere of the documentary "Buried Hopes" has been launched

March 11, 2025 | Buried Hopes - documentary (2025) | Movies

The premiere will take place on two dates and in two places - on 24 April 2025 at 18:00 in Prague at Kino Aero and on 28 Apri...

Current events in contemporary Russia: news as of early March 2025

March 04, 2025 | Current Russia

The beginning of 2025 in Russia was marked by many tragic anniversaries and sad events.

The Putin's Cage exhibition continues its journey through Brno. It has moved from Moravian Square to the Faculty of Arts of MU

February 25, 2025 | Exhibitions | Putin's Cage Exhibition

The installation dedicated to Russian political prisoners moved to the courtyard of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University...

The teaser for our new documentary film from Expedition Kyrgyzstan is out!

February 20, 2025 | Buried Hopes - documentary (2025) | Movies, Expeditions, Expedition Kyrgyzstan

Our new film from the expedition to discover the fate of Czechoslovaks in Soviet Kyrgyzstan will premiere in April.

An exhibition about women in the Gulag is coming to Olomouc

February 18, 2025 | Exhibitions | Exhibition Threads of Memories – The Destinies of Women in the Gulag

Arrests, executions, imprisonments, Gulag camps, deportations of entire nations - all these have affected millions of people ...

From February 2025 you will find a regular overview of events in contemporary Russia on Gulag.cz

February 11, 2025 | Current Russia

Gulag.cz has long cooperated with Memorial. Together we implement a number of projects and support Memorial members currently...

The exhibition "Threads of Memories" brought the stories of women from Soviet camps to Kutná Hora

January 28, 2025 | Exhibitions | Exhibition Threads of Memories – The Destinies of Women in the Gulag

The life of women in the Gulag, with all its harshness, is traced in the exhibition through fragments of everyday life. It us...

The exhibition Putin's Cage dedicated to the stories of Russian political prisoners was opened in Brno

January 16, 2025 | Exhibitions | Current Russia , Putin's Cage Exhibition, Workshops on writing letters to political prisoners in Russia

After two stops in Prague our exhibition moved to the Moravian city of Brno. It will be on display at Moravian Square by the ...

Literary evening dedicated to the fate of women deprived of their freedom from the Gulag to present day

January 14, 2025 | Current Russia  | Workshops on writing letters to political prisoners in Russia, Exhibition Threads of Memories – The Destinies of Women in the Gulag

The accompanying programme to the exhibition Threads of Memori...

65 years ago, the Gulag structure was officially abolished in the USSR

January 09, 2025 | Virtual museum | Blog

In the Soviet Union, the Gulag structure was officially abolished on 13 January 1960. Unofficially, however, it continues to ...

Monitoring of current events in Russia: activities of the democratic part of Russian society - end of 2024

December 22, 2024 | Current Russia

December marks many important commemorations of human rights struggles, many of which are directly related to Memorial's work...

The documentary film Steppe and Frost is now freely available online

December 20, 2024 | Movies

Putin's cage was on display at Republic Square

November 12, 2024 | Exhibitions | Current Russia , Putin's Cage Exhibition

In November, we celebrate the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Czech Republic. And it was during these days t...

The exhibition "Threads of Memories" brings the fates of women in the Gulag closer

November 07, 2024 | Exhibitions | Exhibition Threads of Memories – The Destinies of Women in the Gulag

A new exhibition follows the lives of women in Soviet camps through photographs of handicrafts and objects connected to the s...

You helped us raise funds to complete the film from the Kyrgyzstan expedition!

October 17, 2024 | Expeditions | Movies, Expedition Kyrgyzstan, Buried Hopes - documentary (2025)

At the end of August 2024, we set out in search of Czech traces and evidence of Soviet state terror in Kyrgyzstan. The result...

Writing letters in support of the unjustly imprisoned ended the exhibition Putin's Cage

October 11, 2024 | Exhibitions | Current Russia , Public events, Putin's Cage Exhibition, Workshops on writing letters to political prisoners in Russia

On the last day of the exhibition on 28 October 2024 in the Valdštejnská zahrada in Prague we supported the people unjustly i...

Oleg Orlov opened our new exhibition on Russian political prisoners in Prague on 30 September

September 17, 2024 | Exhibitions | Current Russia , Workshops on writing letters to political prisoners in Russia

The outdoor installation in the Valdštejsnká zahrada in Prague presents ten selected cases of political prisoners who were se...

We commemorate the anniversary of the bloodily suppressed uprising in Vorkuta in July

July 24, 2024 | Virtual museum

One of the largest uprisings in the history of the Gulag broke out in July 1953 and culminated on July 22, when 1,500 prisone...

Interhelpo Kyrgyzstan expedition: We are looking for witnesses!

July 10, 2024 | Expeditions | Expedition Kyrgyzstan, Buried Hopes - documentary (2025)

We are going on an expedition to Kyrgyzstan following the footsteps of Soviet repression and the Czechoslovak commune Interhe...

70 years have passed since one of the most tragic uprisings in the Gulag

June 27, 2024 | Virtual museum

On Wednesday, June 26, we commemorated the anniversary of the suppression of the Kengir Uprising, one of the largest and most...

Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago

May 18, 2024 | Virtual museum

May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world, and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean ...

A new film and website mapping Soviet repressions in Kazakhstan

March 06, 2024 | Movies | Expeditions, Public events

The Soviet terror left an indelible mark in today’s Kazakhstan. More than one million Kazakhs died of famine and millions of ...

We are publishing the unknown story of a Czech woman imprisoned in the Gulag

February 28, 2024 | Czech memory of the Gulag

She was given metal by Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became a Soviet national artist) was taken a...

Brutal deportations of Chechens and Ingushs began 80 years ago

February 23, 2024 | Virtual museum

80 years ago, on February 23, 1944, the resettlement of Chechens and other Caucasian peoples to Central Asia began. Hundreds ...

“Memory of Repression”: A new project to search for data on Soviet terror

January 30, 2024 | Partners and cooperation

A search system named "Memory of Repression" has been launched at www.memsearch.org, w...

Gulag computer game is in the works

October 17, 2023 | Education

Our organisation has joined MEMENTOES, an international project that brings together memory and museum organisations with gam...

On 29 October, we took part in the Returning the Names event

October 11, 2023 | Returning the Names

The Returning the Names event is held annually on 29 October, on the eve of the Russian Day of Remembrance of the Victims of ...

The biggest mass murder of Czechs in the USSR

September 28, 2023 | Czech memory of the Gulag

This year, the Saint Wenceslas Day marks the 85th anniversary of the execution of 80 innocent Czechs in Zhytomyr. The text yo...

A discussion about Andrei Sakharov

September 06, 2023 | Public events

On 13 September, together with the National Library of the Czech Republic - Slavic Library and Memorial ČR, we have prepared ...

The Magnificent One – Nikolai Braun and his poems against the invasion of 1968

August 25, 2023 | Partners and cooperation | Virtual museum

This is the story of a Russian who faced Soviet tanks alone, being even lonelier than the globally renowned eight brave prote...

We have assisted with the launch of the virtual Perm-36 labour camp museum

July 25, 2023 | Partners and cooperation

The unique Perm-36 Museum, created from the former GULAG camp for Soviet dissidents, has an unexpected connection to the Czec...

The unique GULAG XR educational programme is heading for schools

May 02, 2023 | Education

Focusing on education using high technologies, this project is unique in the Czech environment. Using virtual and extended re...

We have raised 123 500 CZK for Ukraine

February 22, 2023 | Partners and cooperation

More than 30 works of art commemorating the Sandarmokh execution grounds dating back to the Stalin terror era will aid Ukrain...

The catalog for Sandarmokh exhibition

January 30, 2023 | Exhibitions

We have just published a detailed catalog for the exhibition "Sandarmoch - where the trees have faces".

Opening of the exhibition "Sandarmoch - where the trees have faces" in Liberec

November 02, 2022 | Exhibitions

Press release by Gulag.cz and Czech Memorial.
The exhibition S...

Returning the names 2022

October 30, 2022 | Returning the Names

Every year, on October 29, on the eve of the Russian Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, we commemorate the nam...

Documentary "Guardians of Memory"

October 07, 2022 | Movies | Public events, Documentary "Guardians of Memory"

Our team made a documentary about the Russian Memorial society, the history of its liquidation and the extremely difficult si...

Sandarmokh – Where the Trees Have Faces

July 28, 2022 | Exhibitions

The exhibition titled "Sandarmokh – Where the Trees Have Faces" will be officially opened at Studio Hrdinů in the Trade Fair ...

Gulag.cz і чеський «Меморіал» шукають митців!

May 31, 2022 | Exhibitions

Асоціація Gulag.cz і чеський «Меморіал» готують виставку, присвячену історії Сандармоху і російському історику Юрію Дмитрієву...

Czech places of conscience in the global context

May 25, 2022 | Czech memory of the Gulag

A reflection on the workshops ...

A Journey to the Gulag: the crimes of Moscow yesterday and today

May 23, 2022 | Public events

Screening of the film A Journey to the Gulag and discussion with Lithuanian poet and dissident Tomas Venclova and Ru...

Dialogue as a tool for reconciliation and development of society - workshops and debates

March 09, 2022

In the week from the 21st to the 25th of March 2022 we are organizing three workshops on the topic "Dialogue as a tool for re...

The war in Ukraine is a tragedy for the present, the future and the past

March 07, 2022 | Current Russia  | Partners and cooperation

Putin's war in Ukraine is a huge tragedy for the present, the future and the past. Let us help everyone where we can, refugee...

Let's stop the liquidation of the Memorial Association!

November 12, 2021 | Current Russia  | Partners and cooperation

We join the call to support the Russian Memorial Association, which is in danger of liquidation. You can also sign the petiti...

Returning the names 2021

October 30, 2021 | Returning the Names

Every year on 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, we celebrate the memo...

Documentary series "The Czechs and the Great Terror"

October 29, 2021 | Czech memory of the Gulag

Executions, deportations to Siberia, physical abuse, slave labor in GULAG camps - this was the Soviet reality under Joseph St...

Online exhibition „Repressed art. Artists in the KGB/StB documents“

September 29, 2021 | Exhibitions

We are pleased to present an online exhibition „Repressed art. Artists in the KGB/S...

We mapped the remains of the Nazi camps in Karviná

June 14, 2021 | Expeditions

One newly localized camp for Soviet POWs and a thorough mapping of the remains of other WWII Nazi camps – that’s the result o...

Exhibition and conference on the centenary of the birth of Andrei Sakharov

May 11, 2021 | Partners and cooperation

Czech branch of Memorial and Gulag.cz together with Russian and Czech partners will host two commemorative events dedicated t...

We have launched 3D gallery of objects from the Gulag

January 25, 2021 | Virtual museum

Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more...

Returning the names 2020

October 29, 2020 | Returning the Names

Every year on 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, we celebrate the memo...

We support imprisoned historian Y. Dmitriev

October 01, 2020 | Current Russia

A joint statement by Post Bellum (a project of the Memory of Nation), Gulag.cz, Czech branch of Memorial and Političtí vězni....

Witnesses of Soviet deportations in the Baltic states

June 13, 2020 | Virtual museum

We have launched a new project on the Gulag Online website remembering the ...

We presented our film and projects in Moscow

March 08, 2020 | Public events

After a few years we presented our projects to Russian audience again. On Tuesday, March 3, we were guests at the Gulag State...

Russia's Soviet Legacy: Discussion with Memorial Society

February 14, 2020 | Partners and cooperation

Memorial in Moscow, in the latest series of court proceedings, was fined over five million rubles for alleged failure to incl...

Gulag in virtual and augmented reality

January 08, 2020 | Education

Dear friends, we would like to show you the first results of our experimenting with virtual and augmented reality which we ha...

Returning the Names 2019

November 10, 2019 | Czech memory of the Gulag

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, we joined for the third time the event of the Russian Memorial Association "Returning the Names...

A Journey to the Gulag - film premiere and VR experience

October 10, 2019 | Movies

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 was the premiere of the documentary film "A Journey to the Gulag" about our ...

Research repression, experience repression: The case of Yury Dmitriev

November 26, 2018 | Public events

On Monday 26. November in Prague took a place a discussion on the criminalization of Russian historians and attempts to rewri...

Returning the names: we commemorated 80 Czechs executed in USSR

November 01, 2018 | Returning the Names

On Monday, October 29, we joined for the second time an event of the Russian Memorial society "Returning the names". At the M...

We launched a new search engine about Soviet repressions

October 11, 2018 | Memsearch.org: A new search engine about Soviet repressions

At http://www.memsearch.org/en/, a new search engine has been launched to facilita...

Last address: two more tables to the executed victims of the communist regime

May 10, 2018 | Czech memory of the Gulag | Last Address

Two new commemorative tables now commemorate the victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

Returning the names 2017 - remembrance of the Czechs executed in the USSR

October 01, 2017 | Czech memory of the Gulag

On Sunday, October 29, on the eve of the Russian Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, we commemorated the names ...

On Tuesday, June 27, we will launch the Czech version of the Last Address project

June 23, 2017 | Czech memory of the Gulag

“One name, one life, one table.” This is the motto of the project Last A...

Travel around the uranium mine at Marble Gorge

May 17, 2017

We have mapped another part of the Marble Gorge camp in the form of a panoramic tour of the adjacent uranium mine. The tour w...

Gulag.cz joins international Sites of Conscience coalition

May 13, 2017

In May our organisation Gulag.cz was accepted into the Sites of Conscience international coalition of museums and memorials o...

Professor Mečislav Borák, author of research on repression against the Czechs in the USSR, died

March 18, 2017

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at the age of 72, Professor Mečislav Borák, the largest Czech expert on the topic of repression ...

Map of Gulag camps and stories from Central Europe

January 11, 2017 | Central European Map of the Gulag

Within the Gula...

We presented the Central European Map of Gulag within the Visegrad countries

December 19, 2016 | Central European Map of the Gulag

At the end of the year, we presented the results of the Central Euro...

We documented Gulags where uranium was mined for the first Soviet atomic bombs

September 05, 2016

In August 2016, we made another expedition to abandoned Gulag camps in Siberia. This time, we headed to the Kodar Mountains i...

Gulag Online virtual museum opens its gates

June 10, 2016 | Public events

Today saw the ceremonial launch of the Gulag Online virtual museum. The virtual museum is the result of a year’s work by memb...

Invitation to the Grand Opening of the Virtual Museum Gulag Online

June 01, 2016 | Virtual museum

We invite you to the grand opening of the virtual museum Gulag Online. The presentation will take place on Thursday, June 9, ...

Gulag Online Museum launches on June 9!

April 29, 2016 | Virtual museum

The Gulag Online Museum is scheduled to be open and open on Thursday, June 9, 2016. If you want to attend the opening ceremon...

Statement on the Moscow attack on participants in the school competition "Man in History"

April 29, 2016

We would like to express our support to our colleagues from the Russian Memorial organization, who were attacked yesterday by...

Semyon Vilensky, a tireless popularizer and publisher of Gulag literature, died

April 25, 2016 | Partners and cooperation

V sobotu 23. dubna v Moskvě zemřel spisovatel a básník Semjon Vilenskij, předseda ...

Стартовл проект Среднеевропейская карта ГУЛАГа

April 18, 2016 | Central European Map of the Gulag

We have launched the "Central European Map of the Gulag" project by the joint workshop with our partners from Poland, Slovaki...

We are linking databases of Soviet repression with Memorial Society

March 08, 2016 | Partners and cooperation

Creating a unified database of Soviet repressions - this was the theme of a three-day workshop that we organized in Prague in...

The Last address - Russian project has attracted a lot of interest, we plan to expand to the Czech Republic

October 26, 2015 | Czech memory of the Gulag | Last Address

The Czech presentation of the Russian project The Last Address, which commemorates the victims of Soviet repression, met with...

We contributed to Dutch exhibition about the Gulag

June 25, 2015

In the Dutch memorial Vught, which is built from a former Nazi concentration camp, was opened on 25 June large exhibition on ...

Stop liquidation of an authentic museum Perm-36. An open letter from Czech institutions to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin

August 10, 2014 | Current Russia

We sent an open letter to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin. The letter was joined by other Czech institutions - th...