In Stavropol the presentation of the book "Prisoners on building communism."

today, 18 November, in the Stavropol Regional Library named after M. Lermontov the presentation of the book "Prisoners at the construction sites of communism: the gulag, and Soviet power." In Stavropol kraevuyu library was transferred to a CD-ROM "The victims of political terror in the USSR", which includes personal information on 2 614 978 names. Presentation of the book on the use of prisoners in the Soviet Union was part of a project to perpetuate the memory of political prisoners. Similar events have already passed in 10 regions of Russia. In Krasnoyarsk, St. Petersburg, Samara and Sverdlovsk regions. Under the project, erecting monuments and memorial plaques at the sites of energy, which were created using the labor of prisoners.

In the Stavropol region Gulag prisoners worked on the construction of mining, construction of roads and the construction of public houses in Kislovodsk, Yessentuki and Zheleznovodsk.

In 1992, in Stavropol was created Rehabilitation Center GUVD Stavropol. For 15 years, his work in the province rehabilitated about 40 thousand victims of political repression. Since 2006, GUVD Stavropol beginning to publish lists of citizens, repressed by nationality and rehabilitated in the initiative on the official website GUVD Stavropol.