Perm-36

Perm-36 was a Soviet forced labor colony located near the village of Kuchino, 100 km northeast of the city of Perm in Russia. It was part of the large prison camp system established by the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era, known as the Gulag. Since 1972 the camp was designated a "strict regime" and "special regime" camp used exclusively for the incarceration of "especially dangerous state criminals", mostly Soviet dissidents.

Built in 1946 and closed in December 1987, the camp was preserved in 1994 by the Russian human historical and human rights organization Memorial. In 1995 the following year it was opened to the public as The "Perm-36" Museum of the History of Political Repression. It was run by an NGO called the Perm-36 Memorial Center of Political Repression". It was the only surviving example of a Gulag labor camp, the others having been abandoned or demolished by the Soviet government before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.