Lefortovo prison

Lefortovo Prison (2016)

The Lefortovo prison is a detention center in the district of Lefortovo in Moscow .

It has existed since 1881 and was subordinated to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in 2005. In the Soviet Union , the prison was notorious as a torture site for the KGB and its predecessors. Michail Woslenski , interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials and historian, describes in his book The Secret Becomes Apparent. Moscow archives tell. 1917-1991 that there was an oversized meat grinder in Lefortowo prison , with which the bodies of the victims were crushed to a pulp and then disposed of in the city sewer system . Today it only serves as a remand prison.

Known inmates from 1953

From 1953, the year of Stalin's death , the following well-known people were imprisoned in Lefortovo prison:

• Nikita Belych (* 1975), provincial governor
• Pyotr Grigorenko (1907–1987), Soviet major general and dissident
• Gleb Jakunin (1934–2014), dissident priest
• Eduard Limonow (1943–2020), writer and politician
• Alexander Podrabinek (* 1953), human rights activist
• Mathias Rust (* 1968), German private pilot
• Natan Sharansky (* 1948), Soviet dissident and Israeli politician
• Oleh Sentsow (* 1976), Ukrainian film director (since May 2014)

Web links

• New times loom for fabled Lefortovo prison

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Globalsecurity.org: Lefortovo
2. ↑ Michail Sergejewitsch Voslensky: The secret is revealed. Moscow archives tell. 1917 - 1991. Langen Müller, Munich 1995, 544 pp. ISBN 3-7844-2536-4 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 42.4 "  N , 37 ° 42 ′ 18.5"  E