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Butyrskaya prison (Russian: Бутырская тюрьма, tr.Butýrskaya tyurmá), usually known simply as Butyrka (Russian: Бутырка, IPA: [bʊˈtɨrkə]), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia it served as the central transit prison. During the Soviet Union era (1917-1991) it held many political prisoners. As of 2022[update] Butyrka remains the largest of Moscow's remand prisons. Overcrowding is an ongoing problem.
The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century. The current building was erected in 1879 near the Butyrsk gate (Бутырская застава, or Butyrskaya zastava) on the site of a prison-fortress which had been built by the architect Matvei Kazakov during the reign of Catherine the Great. The towers of the old fortress once housed the rebellious Streltsy during the reign of Peter I, and later on hundreds of participants of the 1863 January Uprising in Poland. Members of Narodnaya Volya were also prisoners of the Butyrka in 1883, as were the participants in the Morozov Strike of 1885. The Butyrka prison was known for its brutal regime. The prison administration resorted to violence anytime the inmates tried to protest.
Varlam Shalamov notes in one of his tales, that the Butyrka is extremely hot in summer; Eduard Limonov, in his dramaDeath in the Police Van, emphatically agrees. He says that, with the collapse of the Soviet regime, overcrowding has become a real issue; there are more than one hundred inmates in cells meant to contain ten people. Most of these people are politically unreliable subjects from the Caucasus. Since epidemics are a problem, the wardens try to fill cells entirely with people with AIDS, or with tuberculosis; however, this does little to curb the problem, since many inmates are drug users, and there is at most one needle per cell. Moreover, inmates are brought to the tribunal in overcrowded police vans, so that healthy inmates are exposed to tuberculosis.
Butyrka has its own slang: the wardens are called "menti" (Russian: менты), the inmates "patzani" (пацаны), and to take drugs is "vmazatsia" (вмазаться). The word "khuy" (хуй) is used profusely. On a lighter note, television has been allowed since 1995.
Yevgenia Ginzburg, author of Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind; mother of the writer Vasili Aksyonov; her books tell of her arrest during the 1937 purges in the city of Kazan, where she worked as a leading member of the local Communist Party structures of Tartary
Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician and party leader, was briefly held in Butyrka and sent to Kuibyshev and shot there in October 1941
Sergey Golovkin, serial killer and the last person to be executed in Russia
Vladimir Gusinsky, led to the "shares for freedom" transaction or Protocol No.6 (Протокол N.6. Доля свободы) that was signed by Minister for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Lesin
Werner Haase, one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians, died in captivity in 1950
Heinz Hitler, German dictator Adolf Hitler's favorite nephew, died after several days of torture in 1942
Jonas Žemaitis, Lithuanian general, head of the Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan forces after World War II, shot to death in 1953;[3] later recognized as the fourth President of Lithuania in 2009
References
^"КАПЛАНОВ РАШИД ХАН" [Kaplanov Rashid Khan]. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
^Tatarsky, Carl Schreck Nikita (27 December 2018). "Tortured Past: On Russian Memorial, Victims And Perpetrators of Stalin's Purges Stand Side By Side". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
^"Nijolė Žemaitienė. Generolo Jono Žemaičio vaidmuo partizaniniame kare". genocid.lt.
External links
Media related to Butyrka Prison at Wikimedia Commons
Official website(in Russian)
Former Butyrka inmate says: "They throw you there to break you" - interview on Radio Free Europe(in English)
(in Russian)
A list of prisons in Moscow (in Russian)
Unofficial website of workers of The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (in Russian)
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Butyrka redirects here For other uses see Butyrsky This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Butyrka prison news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Butyrskaya prison Russian Butyrskaya tyurma tr Butyrskaya tyurma usually known simply as Butyrka Russian Butyrka IPA bʊˈtɨrke is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow Russia In Imperial Russia it served as the central transit prison During the Soviet Union era 1917 1991 it held many political prisoners As of 2022 update Butyrka remains the largest of Moscow s remand prisons Overcrowding is an ongoing problem Butyrka prison 2010 Butyrskiy penitentiary castle historical model Butyrka prison 1890s Contents 1 History 2 Living conditions 3 Notable inmates 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century The current building was erected in 1879 near the Butyrsk gate Butyrskaya zastava or Butyrskaya zastava on the site of a prison fortress which had been built by the architect Matvei Kazakov during the reign of Catherine the Great The towers of the old fortress once housed the rebellious Streltsy during the reign of Peter I and later on hundreds of participants of the 1863 January Uprising in Poland Members of Narodnaya Volya were also prisoners of the Butyrka in 1883 as were the participants in the Morozov Strike of 1885 The Butyrka prison was known for its brutal regime The prison administration resorted to violence anytime the inmates tried to protest Its famous inmates include the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky the Russian revolutionary Nikolay Bauman and the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky During the February Revolution the workers of Moscow freed all the political prisoners from the Butyrka Following the October Revolution Butyrka remained a place of internment for political prisoners and a transfer camp for people sentenced to be sent to the Gulag During the Great Purge about twenty thousand inmates at a time were imprisoned in Butyrka Thousands of political prisoners were shot after investigations Later prominent political prisoners included the writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgenia Ginzburg Living conditions EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Varlam Shalamov notes in one of his tales that the Butyrka is extremely hot in summer Eduard Limonov in his drama Death in the Police Van emphatically agrees He says that with the collapse of the Soviet regime overcrowding has become a real issue there are more than one hundred inmates in cells meant to contain ten people Most of these people are politically unreliable subjects from the Caucasus Since epidemics are a problem the wardens try to fill cells entirely with people with AIDS or with tuberculosis however this does little to curb the problem since many inmates are drug users and there is at most one needle per cell Moreover inmates are brought to the tribunal in overcrowded police vans so that healthy inmates are exposed to tuberculosis Butyrka has its own slang the wardens are called menti Russian menty the inmates patzani pacany and to take drugs is vmazatsia vmazatsya The word khuy huj is used profusely On a lighter note television has been allowed since 1995 Notable inmates EditFabijan Abrantovich Catholic priest and a pro independence activist from Belarus Anna Abrikosova nun of the Dominican Order and prominent figure in the Catholic Church in Russia Andrei Amalrik Russian historian and famed dissident during the 1960s author of Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984 Wladyslaw Anders Polish general and prime minister Valery Asratyan serial killer executed in 1996 Isaak Babel writer killed in 1940 Aron Baron Ukrainian anarchist Mieczyslaw Boruta Spiechowicz Polish general and one of the leaders of anti communist opposition in the 1970s Alikhan Bukeikhanov Kazakh statesman Walerian Czuma Polish general Felix Dzerzhinsky Cheka founder Vladimir Dzhunkovsky Russian statesman Yuli Yoel Edelstein Hebrew יולי יואל אדלשטיין Russian Yu lij Yu revich Edelshte jn is an Israeli politician One of the most prominent refuseniks in the Soviet Union he has been Speaker of the Knesset since 2013 Blessed Leonid Feodorov Exarch and reputed bishop of the Russian Greek Catholic Church Rashid Khan Gaplanov Education and Finance Minister of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic 1 Yevgenia Ginzburg author of Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind mother of the writer Vasili Aksyonov her books tell of her arrest during the 1937 purges in the city of Kazan where she worked as a leading member of the local Communist Party structures of Tartary Filipp Goloshchyokin Soviet politician and party leader was briefly held in Butyrka and sent to Kuibyshev and shot there in October 1941 Sergey Golovkin serial killer and the last person to be executed in Russia Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich aircraft designer Vladimir Gusinsky led to the shares for freedom transaction or Protocol No 6 Protokol N 6 Dolya svobody that was signed by Minister for Press Broadcasting and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Mikhail Lesin Werner Haase one of Adolf Hitler s personal physicians died in captivity in 1950 Heinz Hitler German dictator Adolf Hitler s favorite nephew died after several days of torture in 1942 Bruno Jasienski Polish poet and futurist killed in 1938 Elena Karpuchina the 1967 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion born in 1951 and spent her first two years living in Butyrki until her mother s pardon in 1953 Aleksandr Kokorin Russian footballer Sergei Korolev Russian rocket and spacecraft designer Walter Linse German human rights lawyer kidnapped in the American sector of Berlin in July 1952 executed 15 December 1953 Alexander Litvinenko Blessed Zygmunt Lozinski Catholic bishop of Minsk Sergei Magnitsky lawyer whose 2009 death in Matrosskaya Tishina Prison led to a 2009 Russian law forbidding jailing of tax criminals and also to the Magnitsky Act being passed by the US Congress in 2012 Nestor Makhno Ukrainian anarchist Pavel Mamayev Russian footballer Vladimir Mayakovsky poet Gunther Merk SS Brigadefuhrer and war criminal executed in January 1947 Leopold Okulicki Polish general last commander of the Armia Krajowa killed in Butyrki in 1946 Konstantin Pats president of the Republic of Estonia when it became occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 Nikolai Polikarpov Soviet aeronautical engineer Yevgeny Polivanov Soviet linguist orientalist and polyglot who was executed in 1938 2 Yemelyan Pugachev pretender to the Russian throne and leader of a Cossack insurrection in 1773 1774 Varlam Shalamov writer and soviet dissident wrote The Kolyma Tales Kazys Skucas Lithuanian politician and general of the Lithuanian Army Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize laureate writer and dissident wrote The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Elena Stasova Russian communist Karlo Stajner Yugoslav communist activist and writer Baruch Steinberg Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army Leon Theremin a pioneer of electronic music the inventor of the theremin and an electronic eavesdropping bug Sergei Tretyakov Avant Garde playwright during the 1920s apparently threw himself down a prison stairwell to avoid execution Augustinas Voldemaras once the prime minister of Lithuania died in this prison after Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 Avgustyn Voloshyn former president of Carpatho Ukraine died in Butyrka in 1945 Helmuth Weidling German Wehrmacht general and last commandant of Berlin died in custody in 1955 Jonas Zemaitis Lithuanian general head of the Lithuanian anti Soviet partisan forces after World War II shot to death in 1953 3 later recognized as the fourth President of Lithuania in 2009References Edit KAPLANOV RAShID HAN Kaplanov Rashid Khan Retrieved 28 November 2011 Tatarsky Carl Schreck Nikita 27 December 2018 Tortured Past On Russian Memorial Victims And Perpetrators of Stalin s Purges Stand Side By Side Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Retrieved 28 December 2018 Nijole Zemaitiene Generolo Jono Zemaicio vaidmuo partizaniniame kare genocid lt External links Edit Media related to Butyrka Prison at Wikimedia Commons Official website in Russian Former Butyrka inmate says They throw you there to break you interview on Radio Free Europe in English Article of the political prisoner s department of the Russian mypeople ru Article of Rossiskaja Gaseta in Russian A list of prisons in Moscow in Russian BBC report about Butyrka prison at Johnson s Russia list Unofficial website of workers of The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in Russian Coordinates 55 47 04 N 37 35 38 E 55 78444 N 37 59389 E 55 78444 37 59389 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Butyrka prison amp oldid 1111543560, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
