Lefortovo Prison

For other uses, see Lefortovo (disambiguation).
Lefortovo Prison
Location Moscow, Russia
Coordinates 55°45′40″N 37°42′22″E / 55.7611407°N 37.7062039°E / 55.7611407; 37.7062039
Status operational
Security class detention center
Opened 1881
Managed by Ministry of Justice of the RF

Lefortovo Prison (Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which, since 2005, has been under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. It was built 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 an infamous KGB prison and investigative isolator (Russian: СИЗО, следственный изолятор) in the Soviet Union for detainment of political prisoners.[1] In 1994, it was transferred to the MVD; and, from 1996 to 2005, it was handed back to the FSB, a successor of the KGB.

Notable prisoners

References

  1. "Lefortovo" at GlobalSecurity.org
  2. article The Washington Post
  3. Hermann Weber, Hotel Lux - Die deutsche kommunistische Emigration in Moskau (PDF) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung No. 443 (October 2006), p. 58. Retrieved November 12, 2011 (German)
  4. "КАПЛАНОВ РАШИД ХАН" [Kaplanov Rashid Khan]. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  5. Bourdeaux, Michael (2008-05-13). "Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet authorities". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  6. "ISCIP"; Perspective, Volume IV, No. 4 (April–May 1994)
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdXh7N5nWwU
  8. Hoover Digest; 2005 no. 1 The Gulag: Life Inside by Bradley Bauer for the Hoover Institution

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