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Lefortovo Prison

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Prison in Moscow For other uses, see [Lefortovo (disambiguation) "Lefortovo (disambiguation)"). | | | Location | Moscow, Russia | | | Status | Operational | | Security class | Detention center | | Opened | 1881 | | Managed by | Ministry of Justice "Ministry of Justice (Russia)") | Lefortovo Prison Lefortovo Prison ( Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма, romanized: _Lefortovskaya tyurma_, Russian:[\[lʲɪˈfortəvə\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian "Help:IPA/Russian")Play audioⓘ) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Justice "Ministry of Justice (Russia)") since 2005.

Background

Lefortovo Prison (Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма, romanized: Lefortovskaya tyurma, Russian: [lʲɪˈfortəvə] ) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Justice since 2005.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1881

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Ministry of Justice

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1881

Region

Lefortovo District

Security level

High-security

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

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Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Said Amirov
    1954 · politician

    Said Dzhaparovich Amirov (Russian: Саи́д Джапа́рович Ами́ров, born 5 March 1954) is a Russian economist and former politician for United Russia who was mayor of Makhachkala from 1998 to 2013.

  • Aleksandr Verkhovsky
    Aleksandr Verkhovsky
    1886–1938 · military personnel

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Verkhovsky (Russian: Александр Иванович Верховский; November 27, 1886 – August 19, 1938) was a Russian military and political figure.

  • Eston Kohver
    1971 · police officer

    Eston Kohver (born 1971) is an Estonian officer of the Estonian Internal Security Service who was detained by the Russian FSB on 5 September 2014 under disputed circumstances, creating a major political rift in Estonia–Russia relations.

  • Yuri Orlov
    Yuri Orlov
    1924–2020 · nuclear physicist

    Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group.

  • Hugo Celmiņš
    Hugo Celmiņš
    1877–1941 · politician

    Hugo Celmiņš (30 October 1877 – 30 July 1941) was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia (19 December 1924 – 23 December 1925, and 1 December 1928 – 26 March 1931).

  • Teofilius Matulionis
    Teofilius Matulionis
    1873–1962 · Catholic priest

    Teofilius Matulionis (22 June 1873 – 20 August 1962) was a Lithuanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

  • Zoya Fyodorova
    Zoya Fyodorova
    1909–1981 · actor

    Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (also Fedorova) (Russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 21 December [O.S.

  • Yuri Sokolov
    1923–1984
  • Ernst Kolman
    1892–1979 · pedagogue

    Ernst Kolman or Arnošt Yaromirovich Kolman (Russian: Арношт Яромирович Кольман); 6 December 1892 – 22 January 1979) was a Marxist propagandist, an ideological enforcer in Soviet science, and an informant during the Stalinist purges.

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