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4 unusual facts about Butyrka prison


Butyrka prison

Werner Haase, one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians, died in captivity in 1945.

Elena Karpuchina, the 1967 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion, born in 1951 and spend first 2 years living in Butyrki until her mothers pardon in 1953.

Polikarpov I-5

In December 1929 the OGPU gathered a number of aircraft engineers together at Butyrka prison, including Polikarpov, and formed the Internal Prison Design Bureau (Konstruktorskoye Byuro Vnutrenniya Tyurma—KB VT) under the leadership of Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich.

Walerian Czuma

He was taken POW by the Russian Army and imprisoned in the infamous Butyrka prison.


Jonas Žemaitis

After being transported to Moscow, he was interrogated by Lavrentiy Beria and was executed in the Butyrka prison in 1954.


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