UNDERGROUND FLOORS OF RUSSIAN PRISONS: WHAT ARE THEY HIDING THERE?
Rumors of secret floors, secret cells, and people disappearing without a trace have circulated for decades beneath Lubyanka, Lefortovo, and Kresty. I examined every myth—and found something unexpected. The reality turned out to be both simpler and more terrifying than any legend.
In this video:
— Where the KGB prison on Lubyanka was actually located
— How a person can disappear within the system—legally
— What is "Kremlin Central" and why even a lawyer can't get in
— Why the Black Dolphin is more terrifying than any myth about underground prisons
— And most importantly: what the system is hiding—and how exactly it does it
This is not a conspiracy theory. Only real facts, archives, and testimonies from people who were inside.
Watch to the end—that's the main point, the reason for this whole conversation.
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00:00 — Introduction: Myths and Reality of Closed Systems
01:39 — Lubyanka: Debunking the Myth of the "Basements" (a prison on the upper floors)
03:31 — Psychological Isolation and "Dead Hollows" in the Walls
04:57 — Statistics of the Internal Prison in 1937: Tupolev, Korolev, and Others
06:22 — Kresty: Panopticon and the Architecture of Control
07:35 — Marshal Rokossovsky: Trials in Kresty
08:57 — Why Are Myths of the Dungeon So Persistent?
10:00 — The Legend of Architect Tomishko's "Thousandth Cell"
10:46 — Lefortovo: The Most Closed Prison in the Country and Its Rules
11:47 — The "Invisibility" System: Boxes in the Corridors and No Communication
12:48 — 2017 Investigation: A Secret Prison in the Moscow Region
13:56 — "Kremlin Central": A Prison Within a Prison in Matrosskaya Tishina
15:38 — Illegal Places of Detention: The Chechen Experience of the 2000s
16:47 — How the System Works: Pre-Trial Detention Centers, Colonies, and Prisons
18:09 — Levels of Isolation: Shizol, PKT, and EPKT (a prison within a colony)
21:26 — Technical Levels: Morgues in Butyrka and Offices in Kresty
24:31 — Transfer as a mechanism for a person's "disappearance"
27:25 — The disappearance of prisoners in 2024 before an exchange
30:44 — The incident in Yaroslavl Correctional Colony No. 1: the reality of the juvenile detention center
34:42 — Punitive psychiatry in the USSR: when a building changes its status
37:25 — Temporary detention center: hundreds of closed cells outside the FSIN structure
39:24 — "Black Dolphin": official isolation at the limit of human capabilities
42:40 — How human rights defenders (Public Monitoring Commission) and lawyers are limited in their control
47:48 — The history of Butyrka: from Pugachev's Tower to the present day
50:33 — The "third method" of interrogation in Lefortovo in the 1930s
51:50 — Everyday life in modern Lefortovo: carpets, radios, and bags over heads
54:52 — Conclusion: structural secrecy and the norm of opacity