Polar Owl
Interactive map of Polar Owl | |
| Coordinates | 66°48′18″N 65°47′24″E / 66.805°N 65.79°E |
|---|---|
| Status | Operational |
| Capacity | 1014 |
| Population | 450 |
| Opened | 1961 |
| Managed by | Federal Penitentiary Service |
| Governor | Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Tsybulsky |
| City | Kharp |
| State/province | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
| Country | Russia |
Federal Governmental Institution — penal colony No. 18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, commonly known as the Polar Owl (Russian: Полярная сова, Polyarnaya sova) is a Russian prison located on the bank of the Sob River near the Polar Urals in the Kharp urban-type settlement.[1] It is one of the seven supermax ("special regimen", in Russian terminology) corrective labor colonies operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service for convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in Russia. In addition to special regimen it has sections with common and strict regimens.
History
Kharp was founded in 1961 during the construction of the Salekhard–Igarka Railway. The core of the new settlement was a camp for prisoners who worked on laying the railway. Subsequently, the camp was transformed into a prison for particularly dangerous recidivists. The prison received the status of a colony for life convicts in 2004.
In 2010–2012, there were reports in the media that some employees of the colony were involved in a scandal with the falsification of confession. Some unscrupulous guards were suspected of beating testimonies from prisoners with the use of physical and psychological violence. Novaya Gazeta reported 190 false confessions, while Izvestia reported 32.[2] According to Novaya Gazeta, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug tried to hush up the case, since high-ranking officials could be involved in it.[3]
Notable inmates
| Name | Born | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nikolai Ageyev | 1974 | Russian serial killer |
| Firuz Aituganov | 1990 | Russian serial killer and rapist |
| Alexander Elistratov | 1954–2011 | Made an unsuccessful escape attempt in 2011
Russian robber and serial killer [4] |
| Alexander Greba | 1980 | Russian serial killer |
| Yevgeny Kolesnikov | 1984–2016 | Killed himself at the colony , Russian serial killer [5] |
| Nikolay Korolyov | 1981 | Leader of the neo-Nazi terrorist group Spas |
| Nur-Pashi Kulayev | 1980 | Sole survivor of the 32 hostage-takers in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis |
| Alexander Lokhtachyov | 1981 | 1/2 pair of Russian serial killers who raped and murdered eight women and girls around Magnitogorsk |
| Sergey Osipenko | 1970 | Kazakhstani-Russian serial killer and rapist |
| Ivan Panchenko | 1968 | Russian rapist and serial killer. |
| Alexander Pichushkin | 1974 | Serial killer[6] |
| Sergey Pomazun | 1981 | Mass shooter |
| Oleg Ten | 1975 | Uzbekistani-born Russian serial killer and former policeman |
| Dmitry Voronenko | 1971 | Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian serial killer |
| Mikhail Yudin | 1975 | Russian serial killer |
| Abdufatto Zamanov | 1973 | Tajik-born Russian serial killer |
| Sergey Zastynchanu | 1979 | Moldovan serial killer |
| Alexander Zhizhich | 1979 | One half of a killing team with his brother |
See also
- IK-3 "Polar Wolf", another prison in Kharp
References
- ^ "ФКУ ИК-18 УФСИН РОССИИ ПО ЯМАЛО-НЕНЕЦКОМУ АВТОНОМНОМУ ОКРУГУ" [PKU IK-18 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District]. Official Site of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Andrey Gridasov, Gaydar Batyrkhanov (2015-06-04). "Defense lawyers of those convicted in the "Politkovskaya case" will remind the court of two killers". Izvestia. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ Vera Chelisheva (2013-03-22). "The "Queen of Evidence" was used 190 times". Novaya Gazeta. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ "Таксист-бомбила убивал преимущественно людей неславянской внешности" [The taxi driver bomber killed mostly people of non-Slavic appearance]. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ "Град обреченных: раскрыт главный мотив самых страшных преступников России" [City of the Doomed: The Main Motive of Russia’s Worst Criminals Revealed] (in Russian).
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