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Background
Butyrskaya prison (Russian: ÐÑÑÑÑÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÑÑÑÑма, romanized: Butýrskaya tyurmá), colloquially known simply as Butyrka (Russian: ÐÑÑÑÑка, IPA: [bÊËtɨrkÉ]), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia it served as the central transit prison. Now it is a pretrial detention facility (remand prison).
During the Soviet Union era (1917â1991) it held many political prisoners. As of 2022 Butyrka remains the largest of Moscow's remand prisons.
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 â May 25, 1977) (Russian: ÐвгеÌÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¡Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾Ìновна ÐиÌнзбÑÑг) was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag.
Kurt Leopold Pflugbeil (9 May 1890 â 31 May 1955) was a German general (General der Flieger) in the Luftwaffe during World War II who commanded 4th Air Corps and Luftflotte 1.
Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (German: [ËnøËtÉ]; 7 October 1884 â 11 September 1941) was a German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
Aleksander Krzyżanowski nom de guerre "Wilk" (18 February 1895 â 29 September 1951) was an artillery colonel of the Polish Army, officer of the Service for Poland's Victory, Union of Armed Struggle, commander of the Vilnius District of the Home Army and political prisoner of the Stalinist period.
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 â May 25, 1977) (Russian: ÐвгеÌÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¡Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾Ìновна ÐиÌнзбÑÑг) was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag.
WÅadysÅaw Anders1892–1970 · military officer
Yevgenia Ginzburg1903–1977 · journalist
Aron Baron1891–1937 · anarchist
Fritz Noether1884–1941 · mathematician
Antoni Krahelski1892–1949 · engineer
Aleksander Krzyżanowski1895–1951 · military officer