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Lefortovo Prison (Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма IPA: [lʲɪˈfortəvə] ⓘ prison in Moscow , Russia , which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Justice since 2005.
History [ edit ]
The prison was built in 1881 in the Lefortovo District of Moscow, named after François Le Fort , a close associate of Tsar Peter I the Great .
In the Soviet Union , during Joseph Stalin 's 1936–38 Great Purge , Lefortovo Prison was used by the NKVD secret police for mass executions and interrogational torture .[1] KGB prison and interrogation site (called an "investigative isolator", or СИЗО: следственный изолятор) for political prisoners .
In 1994, the prison was transferred to the MVD ; from 1996 to 2005, it was under the jurisdiction of 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 [ edit ]
Several members of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rebellion, including Ruslan Khasbulatov and 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 [ru
Alexander Dolgun
Sergey Ryakhovsky , serial killer
Boris Kolesnikov
Hugo Eberlein [5]
Bernt Ivar Eidsvig , Catholic Bishop of Oslo
Rashid Khan Gaplanov , Education and Finance Minister of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic [6]
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Nikolai Glushkov
Chingiz Ildyrym , Azerbaijani Bolshevik and statesman
Ekaterina Kalinina
Vladimir Kirpichnikov
Eston Kohver
Zoya Krakhmalnikova , Soviet Christian 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
Jean-Christian Tirat [fr , French journalist and supporter of compliance with the 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 ).
References in popular culture [ edit ]
Apple TV+ show For All Mankind KGB for sharing too much information about the Roscosmos programs
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Standish, Reid (October 3, 2018). "The New Cold Front in Russia's Information War" . Foreign Policy 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
^ Hermann Weber, Hotel Lux - Die deutsche kommunistische Emigration in Moskau Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung No. 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 . 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 [ edit ]
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