Register of the Giles Udy Collection
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Register of the Giles Udy Collection
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Hoover Institution Archives Staff
- Date Completed:
- 2012
- Encoded by:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Elizabeth Phillips.
© 2012 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Title: Giles Udy collection
Dates: circa 2004-2011
Collection Number: 2011C62
Creator: Udy, Giles, collector
Collection Size:
483 digital files
(135 MB)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Photographs of the sites of forced labor camps near Noril'sk, Russia.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Administrative Information
Access
The collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [digital file name], Giles Udy collection, Hoover Institution Archives
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.
Location of Original Materials
The original photographs in their native file format remain with Giles Udy.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Biographical Note
Giles Udy is an independent academic and a member of the Council of the Keston Institute, formerly Keston College. His long-term
work is on the history of the gulag camps of Norilsk, but he has also published research on the impact of Soviet Communism
in British politics between the wars.
See also: Giles Udy website, copyright 2008 by Giles Udy, http://www.gilesudy.com/
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of born-digital, chiefly color photographs of Noril'sk is accompanied by Udy's notes, which describe the geography,
history, and function of the subjects depicted. The images are of landscapes and buildings; virtually no people are shown.
Three types of files are in the collection: PDF files containing photographs by Udy, JPG files that appear to be chiefly historical
photographs acquired by Udy, and DOC files containing Udy's descriptions of the general subject content of the photographs.
The files available to researchers are the only versions available at Hoover; no higher quality files were received by Hoover.
To protect his copyright, Udy provided most of the photographs to Hoover in PDF format with an embedded copyright statement.
The dates of the collection are based on the "date modified" field of the few JPG files provided to Hoover.
The directory structure, folder names and file names were retained by Hoover almost exactly as received from Giles Udy. The
directory structure consists of folders with descriptive names; it is the basis of the container list. Many of the file names
are also descriptive, though many others follow this alphanumeric form: DSCN1234.pdf. Because the descriptive folder and file
names were very long, occasionally exceeding the file system limit of some operating systems, and contained many characters
not recommended for file names, Hoover staff slightly altered some file names while retaining their descriptive nature. The
creator's full file names were documented and can be provided on request.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in a single series, Photographs of Noril'sk.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Forced labor--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Pictorial works.
Collection Contents
Reading room workstation
Photographs of Noril'sk
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 483 digital files
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by location or subject, and accompanied by notes written by Udy
Photographs of camps and settlements west of Noril'sk
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 132 digital files
Alevrolitnyĭ mining camp/penal camp
Kalargon penal camp cell block
Photographs of Lake Lama camp
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 59 digital files
Note
This was a pine syrup extraction camp 100 kilometers east of Noril'sk
Baltic officers memorials on shore of Lake Lama
Former NKVD rest house nearby
Miscellaneous views
Note
Provided as background interest
Photographs of Medvezhiĭ Rucheĭ settlement
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 31 digital files
Medvezhiĭ Rucheĭ settlement
Nickel mining sites and buildings
Tundra looking south from nickel mine dumps
Photographs of Mt. Schmidt
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 39 digital files
Scope and Content Note
Includes old city, new city and mines
Photographs of Noril'sk old city
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 49 digital files
Note
The old city dates from the mid-1930s to early 1950s
Residential and administrative buildings
Prison
Note
The prison dates to before 1950
Photographs of Noril'sk old city memorial area by old camp graveyard
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 80 digital files
New memorial
Note
This dates to 2005-2006
Photographs of Noril'sk - Dolgoe Ozero (Long Lake) and causeway between old and new cities
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 11 digital files
Photographs of Noril'sk new city
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 75 digital files
Note
This was designated as a city in 1956 but began earlier. The early buildings were built chiefly by prisoners
Entrance to new city from causeway across lake
Camp 5-6 administration building
Miscellaneous sites of interest
Photographs of Noril'sk from outside the city
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 3 digital files
Sample Google Earth screenshots of Noril'sk industrial archaeology
circa 2004-2011
Physical Description: 4 digital files
Note
Provided to indicate what can be done to identify the original sites of the Norillag/Gorlag camp complex from memoirs, original
maps and drawings, combined with on-site and satellite investigation