Solovetsky special purpose camp (1928)

Prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp borrow books on agriculture and agronomy from the library.

Librarians and visitors at the book distribution counter.

Prisoners read newspapers and books during their breaks.

View of a horse skull used as a visual aid during a class on vocational courses.

A prisoner lecturer gives a lecture on zoology.

Prisoner-audiences listen and take notes on the lecture.

Prisoners during a geography class.

A lesson on learning the alphabet.

Female prisoners at their desks.

The teacher makes words from letter cards.

The women repeat the words in chorus.

The antenna of the meteorological station.

Prisoners conduct research on the climate of Solovki.

The head of the meteorological station, Professor V. I. Krivosh-Nemanich at work.

The radio operator receives a radiogram from the mainland.

Printing house workers typeset the text of the next issue of the newspaper.

The production process in the printing house.

The head of the printing house examines a freshly printed poster of the Solovetsky Theatre.

An issue of the newspaper "Novye Solovki".

Sports competitions of prisoners on the site of the "Svyatoe Ozero".

Prisoners swing on swings and climb up ropes.

Prisoners balance on a rotating log, fall from it.

One of the prisoners takes part in a weightlifting competition, tosses a weight.

Prisoners during bathing.

One of the prisoners during weightlifting training.

Doing exercises on the horizontal bar.

Wrestling competition.

Prisoners play football, fragments of a football match.

Actors of the "Solovetsky Theatre" put on makeup before the start of the performance.

Poster for the play "Calm".

Prisoners enter the building of the theater of the 1st section of the camp.

Prisoners climb the stairs.

The orchestra plays.

Spectators wait for the start of the play.

Spectators read the wall newspaper.

One of the issues of the wall newspaper "Kamerton".

View of the cinema hall.

Faces of the spectators.

The projectionist starts the projector.

Actors on the stage.

A poster for a classical music concert.

View of the auditorium (top).

The master of ceremonies announces the beginning of the concert.

The spectators laugh and applaud.

A pianist and violinist play.

Acrobatic numbers are performed on the stage.

Prisoners perform amateur performances.

Relatives of prisoners who arrived for a visit during the navigation period disembark the ship.

Those who arrived for a visit walk along the camp grounds.

Excursions who arrived on the island go to inspect the camp and its attractions.

Excursions listen to guides during their tour of the camp.

The interior of one of the rooms of the museum organized by the Solovetsky Society of Local History.

Samples of products manufactured by prisoners in the production department of the museum.

Books and magazines published in the Solovetsky camp.

Stuffed representatives of the Solovetsky fauna in the museum exposition.

Exhibits of the history department of the museum, locks, icon frames.

The carved Royal Gates in the museum exposition.

The gates open, the statue of Christ behind the gates.

The gates of the Solovetsky Monastery close.

A view of part of the corridor of the church prison.

The guide tells tourists about the church prison.

The tourists descend into the underground cells of the monastery prison.

The tourists inspect the prison cells.

The tourists in one of the cells listen to the guide's story.