Kresty Prison
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Background
Kresty (Russian: Кресты, lit. 'Crosses') prison, officially Investigative Isolator No. 1 of the Administration of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments for the city of Saint Petersburg (Следственный изолятор № 1 УФСИН по г. Санкт-Петербургу), was a detention center in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The prison consisted of two cross-shaped buildings (hence the name) and the Orthodox Church of St. Alexander Nevsky.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1730
Closed 2017
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1730
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
20%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.