Dans le quartier de Boutyrka, un bâtiment sert de prison et fut un élément important dans l'appareil répressif bolchévique, puis soviétique.
Cette prison a été bâtie au XVIIIe siècle et demeure toujours en service.
Sur le site Wikipédia, on situe la prison au no 9 de la Boutirskaya Uliz.
La prison de Lefortovo ne figure toujours pas sur les cartes, mais existe sur les photos satellites (Wikimapia). Voici la localisation du bâtiment et ses coordonnées géographiques: +55° 47' 4.00" N, +37° 35' 38.00" E.
En vue satellite selon la flèche rouge.
En vue schématique.
Butyrka prison
* Fabijan Abrantovich, a well-known Catholic priest and a pro-independence activist from Belarus;
* W. Anders, Polish general and prime minister
* Isaak Babel, writer, killed in 1940
* Felix Dzerzhinsky, Cheka founder
* Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer and historian
* Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist
* Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet
* Leopold Okulicki, Polish general, last commander of the Armia Krajowa, killed in Butyrki in 1946
* Yemelyan Pugachev, pretender to the Russian throne and leader of a Cossack insurrection in 1773-1774
* Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer
* Sergei Tretyakov, Avant-Garde playwright during the 1920s. He apparently threw himself down a prison stairwell to avoid execution.
* Augustinas Voldemaras, once the prime minister of Lithuania, died in this prison after Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940
* Avhustyn Voloshyn, former president of Carpatho-Ukraine, died in Butyrka in 1945.
* Jonas Îemaitis, Lithuanian general, head of the Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan forces after WWII, shot to death in 1953