Colony "Snowy owl» - is special prison regime.Here are serving their sentences serial killer state criminals, dangerous recidivists.The Colony is designed for 1014 seats, including the settlement of land with 100 seats and the strict mode for 450 people.Correctional Facility is one of the most remote places of detention, it is surrounded by countless hills and river Sob.
Colony "Snowy owl»
Where is the prison?The colony is located in the village of Harp of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.Correctional Facility is located above the Arctic Circle on the border of the Northern Urals and tundra, surrounded by hills, by the river Sob.The nearest town is the colony in 1920 kilometers from Moscow, it Labytnangi.
Harp village was established in 1961.Initially, there was a camp for prisoners.Convicted persons engaged in the construction of the railway.Later, the camp was transformed into a penal colony for dangerous repeat offenders.Since the 70s of the twentieth century, it has received the code name hare-34/18.Since 1981, the institution was renamed and since then has been operating as a penal colony №18.It still comes convicted of serious crimes.Since 2005, the establishment is named "PKU IR 18 FPS Russia's YaNAO."Now it is a penal colony of special regime for life-sentenced prisoners."Snowy owl" - This is an unofficial name that was given in honor of the bird monument, located in the territory.
How to get to the prison
prisoners were transported from Moscow in two ways - by train and plane.First duration, takes two days.The aircraft need to fly three hours to the airport in Salekhard.Then you need to hitchhike to get to the crossing of the River Ob.The ferry will carry up Labytnangi, offering transport connections to the village Harp.
life within the walls of institutions
Colony "snowy owl" - a unit that can operate in standalone mode using its own municipal facilities.Correctional institution operating a boiler room, a bakery, a diesel power station, dining room, shop, production departments for the manufacture of breeze blocks and rubble.Also functioning marble, sewing, lathe, carpenter's shop, sewing workshop boots.Prisoners who work at these facilities not only provide themselves with the necessary items, and fulfill orders of the population and enterprises.The institution bred birds and pigs.On the territory operates the chapel, which was consecrated by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Tobolsk and Tyumen Dimitri.
Convicted persons are allowed to receive parcels once a year.On a walk you can go out once a day for 1.5 hours.Walk prisoners in a small cell.Visit limited to ten-minute bath showering once a week.During the day the colonies radio operates.The cells present bed, desk, bedside table, closed shelf where food is stored, shelf for toiletries, and a water tank and a coat rack and a toilet.
rules being in establishing
colony of special regime "snowy owl" includes single and double chamber.Relatives of the prisoners wrote that during the day they are not allowed to lie down on the bed and talk to fellow inmates can only whisper.When you exit the camera convicted searched.All team personnel must meet the prisoners: "Yes, Citizen Chief."All movement within the institution are carried out only in handcuffs in a bent position.Convicts are not allowed to talk while walking, while visiting bath and toilet.My relatives are permitted (no longer than 2 hours), but the possibility of personal meetings excluded.Sporting events, film screenings is prohibited, as well as an opportunity to improve their education.
General information about the institution
Colony "snowy owl" takes prisoners who commit the most serious crimes.This institution serving time Pichushkin Alexander (Bitsa maniac), Denis Onkar (the former police major), guilty of mass execution Pomazun Sergei.In many IR convicted Muslims who were accused of terrorism.Thus, the colony "snowy owl" took himself Nikolai Korolev, the head of the neo-Nazi terrorist organization "Savior," and former terrorist Kulaeva Nur-Pasha.
Correctional Facility is located above the Arctic Circle, where the climate is harsh, and a full summer lasts only one month.Colony "snowy owl" picture which is rare in the media, - remote place of detention.The curator is considered the Federal Security Service of Russia.FSB officers often come to prison, exercise testing, exploring life convicts.Prisoners can write complaints of misconduct of employees and requests for reduction of sentence.
