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| Coordinates | 51°9′20″N 54°59′35″E / 51.15556°N 54.99306°E |
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| Status | Operational |
| Population | 700 |
| Managed by | Federal Penitentiary Service |
| Governor | Colonel Yuri Korobov |
| City | Sol-Iletsk |
| State/province | Orenburg Oblast |
| Country | Russia |
Federal Governmental Institution — Penal Colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Orenburg Oblast,[a] commonly known as the Black Dolphin Prison (Russian: Чёрный дельфин, romanized: Chyorny delʹfin) and formerly known as NKVD Prison No. 2 is a correctional facility in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near its border with Kazakhstan.[1] The prison is one of the oldest in Russia, and one of the first in the Orenburg Oblast to accept prisoners with life sentences. It gets its unofficial name from a prisoner-constructed[2] sculpture depicting a black dolphin, which is set in front of the main entrance.
Originally, Black Dolphin was a jail (ostrog) for those sentenced to life at hard labor, since at least 1745. After the suppression of Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773, the prison was updated for the deportation and confinement of robbers. The prison houses approximately 700 of Russia's worst criminals, including child molesters, murderers, terrorists, cannibals, and serial killers.[3] Prisoners at Black Dolphin are all serving sentences of life imprisonment. The prison began accepting these inmates on 1 November 2000.[1]
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- ^ a b "Структурные подразделения." (Archive) Federal Penitentiary Service for the Orenburg Oblast. Retrieved on April 28, 2012. "В исправительной колонии содержатся осужденные к пожизненному лишению свободы."
- ^ ПУТЕШЕСТВИЕ В ОБРАЗЦОВУЮ ТЮРЬМУ. ЧЕРНЫЙ ДЕЛЬФИН. ПРИГОВОРЁННЫЕ ПОЖИЗНЕННО | Криминальная Россия, retrieved 2021-10-18
- ^ "All Videos: Black Dolphin Prison Archived 2012-08-22 at the Wayback Machine." National Geographic. Retrieved on April 28, 2012.