Pyatak Prison: The Russian Alcatraz Pyatak Prison About 460 km north of Moscow, in the Vologdaprovince, a small lake rests among a sprawling woodland. The lake is called Novozero and its middlestands an island called Ognenny Ostrov. Despite its name meaning “Fiery Island”or “Fire Island”, it is surrounded by ice most of the year, connected to the mainlandonly by a narrow bridge. Fire Island is home to one of the most desolateprisons of the Russian penitentiary system. Its official name is Prison No. OE 256/5, but convicts and guards call itsimply “Pyatak” – or “slash five” in Russian. At least until 2009, the high security prison,known as “Russia’s Alcatraz” housed 170 convicts, amongst the most violent criminalsin the Country. Unlike other prisons in the Russian Federation,like the infamous ‘Black Dolphin’, Pyatak is not the scene of violent clashes amongstrival gangs, rape or drug abuse. Sure, violence is still present,
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