Scenes From The Former Gulag

Yermolaeva’s photos show the abandoned prison where Soviet citizens were once held during “dekulakization," Joseph Stalin’s program of seizing property from wealthy peasants and sending them to the Gulag.

But parts of the former Gulag camp are still being used for detentions.

Yermolaeva learned that Maria Alyokhina, a jailed member of Pussy Riot, was held at Detention Center No. 5 before she was sent to a permanent prison in the same region.

More scenese from the abandoned Traktovaya prison in Perm.

An abandoned building at Traktovaya bears a sign reading: “It is not enough merely to recognize one’s guilt.”