Thank you for your interest in this topic. If we assume that it happens in Russia, it could be a naval school for shipboys (or shipgirls - they say, that in the past girls sometimes also were the students of this kind of institutions). In this case, as an instrument of punishment could serve so-called "линек" - tarred piece of twine with knots at the end. I'll make a drawing with illustration of this kind of russian flogging at naval school...
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