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SIZO No. 1

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Verified 29 May 2026
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  • Aleksandr Sinianin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right LCCN99615532.jpg

    Photo by Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • All the Russias- travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (1902) (14597671397).jpg

    Photo by Internet Archive Book Images via Wikimedia Commons (No restrictions)

  • Irkutsk SIZO No. 1 corner.jpg

    Photo by Andrijko Z. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • IrkutskayaTurma.JPG

    Photo by Kolchak1923 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Kamera Kolchaka.JPG

    Photo by Kolchak1923 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Nikolai Alekseevich Vitashevskii, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right LCCN99615514.jpg

    Photo by Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Prison in Irkutsk.jpg

    Photo by George Kennan (1845-1924) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • Здание губернской тюрьмы 1.jpg

    Photo by R1616r via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1803

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1803

Region

Security level

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

No public contact details available.

Conditions Risk Score

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Insufficient data
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Data completeness

16%

How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.

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