Lefortovo prison

Lefortovo prison

Lefortovo prison is a prison in Moscow, Russia, since 2005 in the command of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It was constructed in 1881. It was named after the Lefortovo District of Moscow where it is located, which in turn took its name from Franz Lefort, a close associate of Tsar Peter I the Great.

During the Great Purge Lefortovo prison was used by NKVD for interrogations with torture.

Lefortovo was a famous KGB prison and criminal investigation isolation ward (Russian: СИЗО, следственный изолятор) in the Soviet Union for detainment of political prisoners [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/russia/lefortovo.htm "Lefortovo"] at globalsecurity.org] . In 1994 it was transferred to MVD and in 1996 it was handed back to secret police FSB, a successor of the KGB.

Famous Prisoners of Lefortovo

*Vladimir Bukovsky [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html]
*Nicholas Daniloff
*Alexander Dolgun
*Yevgenia Ginzburg
*Nikolai Glushkov
*Zoya Krakhmalnikova - Soviet Christian dissident cite news |first=Michael |last=Bourdeaux |title=Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet authorities|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/13/russia.religion |work= The Guardian |publisher= |date=2008-05-13 |accessdate=2008-05-17]
*Platon Lebedev
*Eduard Limonov
*Alexander Litvinenko
*Vil Mirzayanov [http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol4/Mirzayanov.html]
*Ian Rokotov
*Mathias Rust
*Natan Sharansky
*Andrei Sinyavsky [http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3002001.html]
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
*Igor Sutyagin
*Raoul Wallenberg
*Nadezhda Ulanovskaya, wife of Alexander Ulanovsky
*Several members of the August Coup

References

External links

* [http://www.agentura.ru/infrastructure/specprisons/lefortovo/ Lefortovo prison] ru icon – Includes hand-drawn floorplan
* [http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=3758 New Times Loom for Fabled Lefortovo Prison] The St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 2005


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