Nerchinskoi katorgi (Views and inhabitants of the Nerchinsk hard labor camps) is an album of 74 photographs taken by Aleksei Kirillovich Kuznetsov (1845-1928) in July 1891. The Nerchinsk katorga was part of the katorga (forced labor) system of imperial Russia, located in the province of Transbaikalia (present-day Zabaykalskiy Kray), near the Russian border with China. Common criminals and political prisoners alike were sent to these camps to work the nearby mines and their associated smelting plants. Kuznetsov himself was a political prisoner, sentenced in 1873 to permanent exile in Siberia and six years of hard labor at the Kara mines.