The three centuries of a prison in Syzran

Human rights activist and one of Memorial's founders, Oleg Orlov was unjustly sentenced to 2,5 years of penal colony by a Russian court. We have prepared a historical account of the Pre-Trial Detention Center #2 in the city of Syzran where Oleg Orlov was awaiting his court of appeal. The history of this penitentiary, one of Russia's oldest, dates back about three centuries.

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