Scenes From The Gulag's 'Dead Road'

It is obvious from the pictorial evidence that the prisoners' living conditions were very rudimentary, to say the least. 

Prisoners' sleeping quarters

Several locomotives used on the railway were simply left behind to rust away once the project was aborted.

The researchers from Gulag.cz also found many items belonging to prisoners that had been left at the camps when they were abandoned.

A lot of the tools used by the workers were also left behind. 

Many of the prison camps' barbed-wire fences still remain intact to this day. 

Watch towers were erected at the camps to ensure the strict supervision of the inmates. 

Railway sleepers to nowhere in the Siberian taiga