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Butyrka prison, 1890s. Butyrskaya prison (Russian: Бутырская тюрьма, tr. Butýrskaya tyurmá ), usually known simply as Butyrka (Russian: Бутырка, IPA: [bʊˈtɨrkə] ), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia it served as the central transit prison. During the Soviet Union era ...
Dec 8, 2020 · In the center of Moscow lies a prison infamous for the inhumane treatment of inmates. Since its first incarnation 250 years ago, Butyrka Prison has been home to a long history of harsh living conditions, human rights violations, and spectacular escape attempts. While long notorious within Russia, in 2009, the death of Sergei Magnitsky brought ...
Dec 17, 2018 · Butyrka, an imposing red-brick jail in central Moscow, now functions as a pre-trial detention centre that houses about 2,000 inmates. The whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky spent almost a year ...
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Apr 27, 2021 · They are shipped in from the most far-flung regions of the Soviet Republics, transported thousands of kilometers, individually or in small groups. Some are old acquaintances by now, as they find themselves once more in group cells in Butyrka, Moscow’s central prison, where many were placed after their initial arrests a few years before.
Known officially as Special Object 110 (Russian: Спецобъект № 110), it was said to be worse than the Lubyanka, Lefortovo, or Butyrka prisons in Moscow itself. From 1958 it was a jail hospital. During 1992 the prison was returned to the church as a monastery and on November 17, 1992, the first vows were made within its walls.
Misiūnas was arrested and imprisoned and later transported to the Butyrka prison in Moscow. It is believed that he was executed on 11 March 1947 though there is no documentary evidence to support the date. For several months after his arrest, the NKVD sent communications in the name of Misiūnas to the Didžioji Kova military district.
Jun 15, 2021 · It had originally been a hotel built, again, by the All-Russia Insurance Company. It was soon expanded to six floors. Jokes referred to it as the “tallest building in Moscow,” as one could purportedly see Siberia (and the Gulag system) from its basement, as that was the fate that awaited most that saw the inside of the prison’s walls.
