Illustrations

All images and captions have been provided by Memorial International Human Rights Society, Moscow.

1	Pages from Ivan Chistyakov’s diary
2	Aksametova, leader of a zek women’s phalanx
3	Cover of a magazine for BAMLag guards: Bulletin of the Consultative Bureau of BAMLag NKVD Armed Guards, No. 1, 1935. State Archive of the Russian Federation
4	Zeks checking the laying of sleepers on the track
5	Backfilling the track with aggregate
6	A zek bugler signals a warning of explosives detonation
7	Zek with pickaxe
8	Zeks eating in the open
9	Chekists in charge of the BAM camp and construction project
10	Zek women’s brigade loading wagons with subsoil for track subgrade
11	Pages from Ivan Chistyakov’s second notebook