White Swan (25 photos)

White Swan is the unofficial name of a special regime correctional colony in the city of Solikamsk, Solikamsk district, Perm region. The official name is VK-240/2 or IK-2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Perm Territory.

The colony has one of the toughest regimes in the correctional system. Variants of the unofficial name came from different versions: from the color of the walls, or, more plausibly, from the way prisoners moved around the prison: leaning forward (almost 90 degrees) with their arms thrown behind their backs, the so-called. "swan". There is also another version of the name, which comes from the fact that in the prison yard there is a monument to white swans. The famous terrorist Salman Raduev (died under unclear circumstances in 2002) and other especially dangerous criminals were kept in this prison.

There are two famous zones in Russia that many have heard about. These are the Orenburg “Black Dolphin” and “White Swan”. It was the White Swan colony, located in the Perm region, that debunked the myth about the beautiful and free life of thieves in prison. Hundreds of thieves in law were broken and “unmasked” here.

There is a prison with the same name “White Swan” in Latvia, in the city of Daugavpils.