The ‘Prisoners of Perm Political Camps’ database based on name lists of prisoners of each of the three Perm political camps: Perm-35, Perm-36, Perm-37 and prisoners’ records which were copied at the Data Center of Perm Regional Department of Internal Affairs, and some tens of charging documents and judgments from some prisoners’ archived investigatory records which were made available to the staff of Perm-36 Memorial Center. The former prisoners’ memoirs, accounts and recollections were also used.

The database comprises a personal case for each and every prisoner throughout the period Perm political camps existed, 1972 through 1992. Each case comprises a reference about the prisoner based on the camp accounts and information from all available sources. Separate folders hold scans and transcripts of camp records, photos and copy documents from archived investigatory records and public prosecutor’s supervision files.

Perm-35, Perm-36 and Perm-37 made a unified system of political camps. Not infrequently, prisoners were transferred from one camp to another, or even to a third one. The nature of the available sources does not allow to list each camp’s prisoners individually and quite accurately throughout their history, but, where available, information about the prisoners’ individual camp-to-camp transfers is included in personal references which are contained inside the cases.