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Tartary

The region that is home to Eugenia Ginzburg and her family.

Black Lake

A lakeside resort town, which is the location of a Soviet secret police barracks.

Butyrki Prison

The nightmarish place to which Eugenia Ginzburg, Julia Karepova, and hundreds of other convicted women are sent.

Kolyma

A forced labor camp located in Siberia.

Elgen

A remote forced labor camp where Ginzburg is ultimately sent and nearly dies.

Moscow

The capital of Soviet Russia.

Fish Bone Needles

Prisoners use these to mend clothing.

Sugar

Prisoners are given two cubes of this a day.

Money

In some prisons, like Butyrki, prisoners may receive this from their relatives.

Paper

This can be purchased from the prison stores..

Clothing

The women carefully tend and mend this as it is in short supply in prison.

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