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Lefortovo Prison
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LocationMoscow, Russia
Coordinates55°45′40″N 37°42′22″E / 55.7611407°N 37.7062039°E / 55.7611407; 37.7062039
Statusoperational
Security classdetention center
Opened1881
Managed byMinistry 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. The prison was built in 1881 in the Lefortovo District of Moscow, named after Franz Lefort, 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] Lefortovo was an infamous KGB prison and interrogation site (called an "investigative isolator", or СИЗО: следственный изолятор) for political prisoners.[2] 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.[3]

Notable prisoners

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References

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  2. ^ "Lefortovo" at GlobalSecurity.org
  3. ^ Schmidt, Friedrich; Moskau. "Unternehmertum in Russland: Putins Herrschaftssystem". FAZ.NET (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ article The Washington Post
  6. ^ Hermann Weber, Hotel Lux - Die deutsche kommunistische Emigration in Moskau (PDF) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung No. 443 (October 2006), p. 58. Retrieved November 12, 2011 (in German)
  7. ^ "КАПЛАНОВ РАШИД ХАН" [Kaplanov Rashid Khan]. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  8. ^ Bourdeaux, Michael (2008-05-13). "Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet authorities". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  9. ^ "ISCIP"; Perspective, Volume IV, No. 4 (April–May 1994)
  10. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Mutiny on the Storozhevoy 1975 Part 3 of 3". YouTube.
  11. ^ [1] The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
  12. ^ Hoover Digest Archived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine; 2005 no. 1 The Gulag: Life Inside by Bradley Bauer for the Hoover Institution
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