Snowflake (prison)
The Snowflake became the first and only prison for life prisoners in the Far East. In 1996, the construction of a pre-trial detention center with a capacity of 800 beds was started in its place. The facility was completed in 2012, put into operation in early 2014. The nickname of the prison comes from the seven-beam shape of its buildings.
In July 2017, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Khabarovsk Krai reported that the insulator would be reclassified into a prison for life convicts. On September 20, the institution started working as a corrective labor colony and began receiving the first prisoners who were brought from other penitentiary institutions in Russia (mainly from the closing BlackBerkut penal colony. Sewing and woodworking workshops have appeared on the territory of the prison. As of November 2017, there were 23 people in the Snowflake, and by June 2020 the number had risen to 250.
Notable inmates
- Yevgeny Chuplinsky, serial killer
- Vladimir Mirgorod, serial killer and serial rapist
- Yevgeny Krasnoyarov, serial killer and Neo-Nazi
- Nikolai Chigirinsky, serial killer and rapist
References
- ^ "ФКУ ИК-6 УФСИН РОССИИ ПО ХАБАРОВСКОМУ КРАЮ". Official Site of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in the Khabarovsk Krai.