Lefortovo Prison
Location | Moscow, Russia |
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Coordinates | 55°45′40″N 37°42′22″E / 55.7611407°N 37.7062039°E |
Status | operational |
Security class | detention center |
Opened | 1881 |
Managed by | Ministry of Justice of the RF |
Lefortovo Prison (Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма, IPA: [lʲɪˈfortəvə] ⓘ) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Justice since 2005.
History
The prison was built in 1881 in the
Peter I the Great
.
In the
mass executions and interrogational torture.[1] Later Lefortovo was an infamous KGB prison and interrogation site (called an "investigative isolator", or СИЗО: следственный изолятор) for political prisoners
.
In 1994, the prison was transferred to the
FSB, a KGB successor agency. The prison is said to have strict detention conditions. Only visits by lawyers are allowed. Letters can be received but are read by prison officials.[2]
Notable prisoners
- Several members of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
- Several members of the Alexander Rutskoi
- Igor Artimovich
- Sergey Beseda, former head of the Fifth Service under President Putin until the 2022 invasion of Ukraine; reportedly imprisoned over intelligence failures and embezzlement.
- Frode Berg, Norwegian spy[3]
- Vasily Blyukher
- Vladimir Bukovsky[4]
- Nicholas Daniloff
- Svetlana Davydova
- Alexander Dolgun
- Boris Kolesnikov
- Hugo Eberlein[5]
- Bernt Ivar Eidsvig, Catholic Bishop of Oslo
- Yevgenia Ginzburg
- Nikolai Glushkov
- Chingiz Ildyrym, Azerbaijani Bolshevik and statesman
- Ekaterina Kalinina
- Vladimir Kirpichnikov
- Eston Kohver
- dissident[7]
- Platon Lebedev
- Eduard Limonov
- Alexander Litvinenko
- Vil Mirzayanov[8]
- Levon Mirzoyan
- Unto Parvilahti, SS-Officer
- Osip Piatnitsky
- Leonid Razvozzhayev
- Ian Rokotov
- Mathias Rust, 18-year-old West German who landed a Cessna 172 airplane near Red Square.
- Valery Sablin[9]
- Natan Sharansky
- Sergei Skripal[10]
- Andrei Sinyavsky[11]
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Igor Sutyagin
- Helsinki Agreement
- Nadezhda Ulanovskaya, wife of Alexander Ulanovsky
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Khalil Rza Uluturk, Azerbaijani poet.
- Lina Prokofiev, wife of Sergei Prokofiev
- Helmuth Weidling, German Army general
- Paul Whelan, American arrested in Moscow for espionage (citizen of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland).
- Azov Regiment
- Sviatoslav Palamar Kalyna, Ukrainian Army Captain, Deputy Commander of Azov Regiment
- 36th Marine Infantry Brigade
- Evan Gershkovich, American journalist arrested for espionage [12]
References in popular culture
- Fictional Apple TV+ show For All Mankind Season 3 Episode 5 - Character Sergei Nikulov claims he was a prisoner where he was tortured by the KGB for sharing too much information about the Roscosmos programs
See also
References
- ^ Лефортовская тюрьма
- ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ Standish, Reid (October 3, 2018). "The New Cold Front in Russia's Information War". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018.
Ten months later, Berg remains detained in Moscow's high-security Lefortovo prison, still not officially charged but facing the possibility of 20 years behind bars.
- ^ article The Washington Post
- Konrad-Adenauer-StiftungNo. 443 (October 2006), p. 58. Retrieved November 12, 2011 (in German)
- ^ "КАПЛАНОВ РАШИД ХАН" [Kaplanov Rashid Khan]. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Bourdeaux, Michael (2008-05-13). "Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet authorities". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
- ^ "ISCIP"; Perspective, Volume IV, No. 4 (April–May 1994)
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Mutiny on the Storozhevoy 1975 Part 3 of 3". YouTube.
- ^ [1] The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
- ^ Hoover Digest Archived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine; 2005 no. 1 The Gulag: Life Inside by Bradley Bauer for the Hoover Institution
- ^ "Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin's purges". AP News. 31 March 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
External links
- Lefortovo prison (in Russian) – Includes hand-drawn floorplan
- "New Times Loom for Fabled Lefortovo Prison", The St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 2005