Vladimir Central Prison

Vladimirovka - official Russian name: Владимирский централ Wladimirskij Central ( Central Prison Vladimir) - is a prison in the Russian city of Vladimir. It dates from the late 18th century.

History

The prison was built by order of Russian Empress Catherine II in 1783. In the maximum-security prison, built in 1825, now houses the City Detention Center Vladimir. In 1906 it was renamed the Central Prison. Among the inmates of the prison were numerous members of the German Wehrmacht and Soviet dissidents. In 1996, a museum was built on a part of the prison grounds.

Known occupants

• Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, Soviet military commander during the Russian Civil War
• Friedrich Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army
• Helmuth Weidling, commander at the Battle of Berlin (1955 in prison deceased)
• Ferdinand Schörner, commander of armies and army groups
• Johann Rattenhuber, chief of the bodyguard of Hitler
• Ewald von Kleist, commander of Panzer Group and Army Groups (1954 died in prison)
• Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev, Russian poet
• Vladimir Bukovsky, the Soviet dissident
• Vasily Iosifovich Stalin, son of Joseph Stalin
• Pawel Anatoljevich Sudoplatow, leading scientist of the Soviet secret
• Francis Gary Powers, American pilot
• Lidija Ruslanova, Soviet pop and folk singer of the 1930s

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• Prison (Russia)
• Vladimir Oblast
• Russian Empire
• Russian SFSR