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    Butyrskaya prison (Russian: Бутырская тюрьма, romanized: Butýrskaya tyurmá), usually known simply as Butyrka (Russian: Бутырка, IPA: [bʊˈtɨrkə]), is a prison in...
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    its prisons into Russian penal military units, both through the Wagner Group and through official government units like Storm-Z. Butyrka Prison, Moscow...
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  • fear of being sent to prison before being apprehended in 1990. Asratyan was sentenced to death and executed at Butyrka Prison in 1996. Valery Asratyan...
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    because of Butyrskaya Zastava Square, which also gave name to the nearby Butyrka prison. The station was built from 1897 to 1902, along a 130-kilometre (81 mi)...
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    night of 1 to 2 October 1937, Oschchepkov was arrested. He died in the Butyrka prison, officially of a heart attack. In reality he was accused of being a...
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    Michael Borisov, who was recently released from prison. In December 2014 the former vocalist Butyrka Vladimir Zhdamirova released his first solo album...
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    than the Lubyanka, Lefortovo, or Butyrka prisons in Moscow itself. From 1958 it was a jail hospital. During 1992 the prison was returned to the church as...
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    Sergei Magnitsky (category Russian people who died in prison custody)
    held without trial. In total, Magnitsky served 358 days in Moscow's Butyrka prison. He developed gall stones, pancreatitis, and a blocked gall bladder...
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  • an army post. He was captured by Soviet forces and died at the Butyrka military prison in Moscow in February 1942, at the age of 21. Hitler family Notes...
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  • 1959 Moscow, Soviet Union Died 2 August 1996(1996-08-02) (aged 36) Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russia Other names The Fisher The Boa Chikatilo's Apprentice...
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    and hostile to the Soviet Union." He died 19 July 1945 in Moscow's Butyrka prison; the official cause of death was given as heart failure. In 2002, by...
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  • Miguel Castro Castro prison Aiud Prison, Aiud Gherla Prison, Gherla Pitești Prison, Pitești Butyrka Prison, Moscow Corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia Corrective...
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  • list of notable people who have died in prison, whether in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. This list does not include inmates...
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  • him to the brink of death, and he was transferred to the hospital at Butyrka prison to recuperate. His whereabouts were known by Truman, Eisenhower and...
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    approaching war. Shortly after he returned he was imprisoned in the Butyrka prison and later sent to work in the Kolyma gold mines. Although rumors of...
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    Fabijan Abrantovich (category Soviet people who died in prison custody)
    imprisoned in Lwow, and tortured. Later on he was transferred to the Butyrka prison in Moscow. The place and the date of his death are not established with...
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  • police documents to enter houses and then burglarize them. In 1974, in Butyrka prison he was "crowned" i.e. awarded by criminal brotherhood the title of vor...
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    After the war he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and died at Moscow's Butyrka prison. Okulicki was born in November 1898 in Bratucice, Bochnia County in...
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    where family briefly visited him, to the Katerynoslav prison, and in August 1911, to Butyrka prison in Moscow, where over 3,000 political prisoners were...
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    Republic of the Northern Caucasus Died 16 May 1963(1963-05-16) (aged 44) Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Cause of death Execution by shooting...
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    Ginzburg, who was also arrested in 1937, recorded being approached inside Butyrka prison by "a woman of about 55, with an expression of acute suffering on her...
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  • 22 June 1905 Melitopol, Russian Empire Died 20 April 1956 (aged 50) Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Cause of death Execution by shooting...
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  • Viktor Päts (18 April 1906 Pärnu – 4 March 1952 Butyrka Prison, Moscow) was an Estonian politician, lawyer, and son of Estonian president Konstantin Päts...
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    "Case #419, Babel, I.E.", the writer was held at the Lubyanka and Butyrka Prisons for a total of eight months as a case was built against him for Trotskyism...
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  • Werner Haase (category Nazis who died in prison custody)
    captivity. The place of death is recorded as "Butyr prison hospital", likely the Butyrka prison in Moscow. Downfall, 2004 German film where he was portrayed...
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    and put into the Butyrka prison in Moscow. But due to the lack of evidence in the criminal case against him, he was released from prison. In 1930, the authorities...
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  • character is an amalgamation of Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo. Rourke visited Butyrka prison to research the role, and he suggested that half of the character's...
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    Lefortovo prisons in Moscow, and from the end of August in the Butyrka prison. In December 1945, he was sentenced to five years in a prison camp under...
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    Konstantin Päts (category Inmates of Kresty Prison)
    Päts and his son were sent to Butyrka prison in Moscow and Helgi-Alice to Gulag prison camps in Siberia. In Butyrka prison, Johan Laidoner was prisoner...
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  • as unaware of her actions and transferred to the psychiatric ward of Butyrka prison. Although the other two sisters were found to be sane, the experts diagnosed...
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