Matrosskaya Tishina
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Matrosskaya Tishina (formal name: Federal Budget Institution IZ-77/1 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the City of Moscow) is a detention facility located in northern Moscow
, known by the name of the street on which it is located. It has operated as a prison since 1945, famously holding Mikhail Khodorkovsky
and some plotters of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, known by the name of the street on which it is located. It has operated as a prison since 1945, famously holding Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a Russian prisoner, considered by some - such as Amnesty International - to have been imprisoned for political reasons, jailed until 2016 and a former Russian oligarch and businessman...
and some plotters of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.