Sukhanovo Prison, the Glossary
Sukhanovka, short for Sukhanovskaya osoborezhimnaya tyur'ma (Сухановская особорежимная тюрьма) 'Sukhanovo special-regime prison,' was a prison established by the NKVD under N. I. Yezhov in 1938 for "particularly dangerous enemies of the people" on the grounds of the old Ekaterinskaia Pustyn' Monastery near Vidnoye, just south of Moscow.[1]
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14 relations: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Dolgun, Butyrka prison, Filipp Goloshchyokin, Lefortovo Prison, Lubyanka Building, Mikhail Ryumin, Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union), Moscow, Nikolai Yezhov, NKVD, Sleep deprivation, The Gulag Archipelago, Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast.
- Prisons in the Soviet Union
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
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Alexander Dolgun
Alexander Michael Dolgun (29 September 1926 – 28 August 1986) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag who wrote about his experiences in 1975 after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
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Butyrka prison
Butyrskaya prison (r), usually known simply as Butyrka (p), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. Sukhanovo Prison and Butyrka prison are prisons in the Soviet Union.
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Filipp Goloshchyokin
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin (Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин) (born Shaya Itsikovich) (Шая Ицикович) (– October 28, 1941) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionary.
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Lefortovo Prison
Lefortovo Prison (p) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Justice since 2005. Sukhanovo Prison and Lefortovo Prison are prisons in the Soviet Union.
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Lubyanka Building
Lubyanka (p) is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the FSB on Lubyanka Square in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia. Sukhanovo Prison and Lubyanka Building are prisons in the Soviet Union.
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Mikhail Ryumin
Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин (1 September 1913 – 22 July 1954) was a Soviet security officer and deputy head of the Soviet MGB (Ministry of State Security) who engineered the "Doctors' Plot" in 1952–1953.
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Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of State Security (Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti), abbreviated as MGB (МГБ), was a ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1953 which functioned as the country's secret police. Sukhanovo Prison and ministry of State Security (Soviet Union) are political repression in the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
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Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (p; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.
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NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. Sukhanovo Prison and NKVD are political repression in the Soviet Union.
Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident.
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Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast
Vidnoye (p) is a city and the administrative center of Leninsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located south of Moscow city limits.
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See also
Prisons in the Soviet Union
- Amerikanka
- Black Dolphin Prison
- Bolshoy Dom
- Brygidki
- Butyrka prison
- Chernokozovo detention center
- Gulag
- Kachanivska penal colony
- Kresty Prison
- Lefortovo Prison
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union
- Lubyanka Building
- Lukiškės Prison
- Lukyanivska Prison
- Matrosskaya Tishina
- NKVD special camp No. 48
- Ognenny Ostrov
- Okrestina
- Oryol Prison
- Prison on Łącki Street
- Solovki prison camp
- Soviet special camps
- Stolobny Island
- Sukhanovo Prison
- Taganka Prison
- Vladimir Central Prison