The third volume of the book series includes memoirs of prisoners of the Solovetsky special purpose camp who served their sentences in 1925-1930, scientific articles and bibliographic lists on the history of the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church and M. Gorky's visit to Solovki in the summer of 1929, as well as reference materials on the history and geography of the elephant. The book is aimed at the widest circle of readers and specialists interested in Russian history.