A travelling exhibition prepared in 2003 by the Memorial Museum Perm-36 presents the history of the Soviet labour camp that operated in the village of Kuchin in the Chusovoy District of Perm Oblast from 1946 to 1987. Established in 1946, the 6th Penal Labour Colony (PDK-6) eventually became Perm-36, the most heavily guarded special regime camp in the Soviet Union, where dissidents of various nationalities, human rights defenders, founders, and members of the Helsinki Group were imprisoned. The exhibition reflects the three main phases of the camp’s development: 1946-1954, 1954-1972, and 1980-1989. Each phase is complemented by the biographies of political prisoners Andrei and Ivan Gel, Balys Gajauskas, Levko Lukianenko, Sergei Kovalev and Vasyl Stus. Imprisoned for many years in the special regime camp Perm-36, these political prisoners, like many others, remained firm defenders of their beliefs.

In 2012, the exhibition was launched in Lithuania in cooperation with the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights of the LGGRTC, Perm’s Memorial Centre for the History of Political Repressions Perm-36 and the Memorial Museum Perm-36.