Vladimir Central Prison

View from the street of a section of the wall

Frunze Courthouse, adjacent to the prison

The Vladimir Central Prison is a prison in the city of Vladimir in Russia , in which numerous war criminals and dissidents were imprisoned.

history

The prison was built in 1783 on the orders of Tsarina Catherine II . In the maximum-security prison from 1825 which now houses the detention center the city of Vladimir. In 1906 the name was changed to the central prison . The inmates of the prison during the Soviet Union also included dissidents as well as German war criminals and prisoners of war of the Second World War . A museum was built on part of the prison grounds in 1996, but has been closed indefinitely since the 2010s.

Friedrich Paulus , Commander in Chief of the German 6th Army
Helmuth Weidling , commandant in the Battle of Berlin (died in prison in 1955)
Ferdinand Schörner , commander in chief of armies and army groups, convicted war criminal
Johann Rattenhuber , chief of Hitler's bodyguard
Ewald von Kleist , Commander-in-Chief of Panzer Groups and Army Groups, convicted war criminal, (died in prison in 1954)
Alfred Gerstenberg , Commander of the Air Force Romania, Lieutenant General
Daniil Leonidowitsch Andrejew , Russian poet
Vladimir Bukovsky , Soviet dissident
Wassili Iossifowitsch Stalin , son of Josef Stalin
Pavel Anatoljewitsch Sudoplatow , a leading employee of the Soviet secret service
Francis Gary Powers , American pilot
Lidija Ruslanowa , Soviet hit and folk singer of the 1930s
Yuri Shukhevich , Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician
Anatoly Tichonowitsch Marchenko , Soviet dissident
Mart-Olav Niklus Estonian biologist and human rights activist

^ The Lubjanka dossier from General Field Marshal Schörner , Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, accessed February 6, 2016