Lefortovo prison

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Coordinates: 55°45′40″N, 37°42′22″E Lefortovo prison is a prison in Moscow, Russia, since 2005 in the command of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It was constructed in 1881.

Leforovo was a famous KGB prison and criminal investigation isolation ward (Russian: СИЗО, следственный изолятор) in the Soviet Union for detainment of political prisoners. In 1994 it was transferred to MVD and in 1996 it was handed back to secret police FSB, a successor of the KGB.

[edit] Prisoners of Lefortovo

• Vladimir Bukovsky [1]
• Nicholas Daniloff
• Alexander Dolgun
• Yevgenia Ginzburg
• Platon Lebedev
• Eduard Limonov
• Alexander Litvinenko
• Vil Mirzayanov [2]
• Ian Rokotov
• Natan Sharansky
• Andrei Sinyavsky [3]
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Igor Sutyagin
• Raoul Wallenberg

[edit] See also

• Franz Lefort

[edit] External links

• "Lefortovo" at globalsecurity.org
• Lefortovo prison (Russian) – Includes hand-drawn floorplan
• New Times Loom for Fabled Lefortovo Prison The St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 2005