A 26-year-old Belarusian man escaped from...
capital. He was restrained with shackles and locked in an iron box in the Butyrka prison, but somehow managed to escape in 28 minutes.* There are reports of several unsuccessful jailbreaks from 1905 to 1913. In 1909 a massive prison escape was prevented following a tipoff from an inmate.
* There are no reports of escapes from Butyrka in Soviet times, but this may be due to the Soviet authorities reluctance to make public "bad news."
* In 1992, two inmates managed escaped from the prison"s roof yard by lifting steel bars and jumping to the roof of a nearby furniture factory. They were caught several days later.
* Natalya Sorokozherdeva was the first woman ever to escape from Butyrka. In 1996 she swapped places with her cellmate, who was due to be released soon, and left the prison under a false identity. She was detained three days later.
* Later that year two inmates used a rope to escape from the prison yard on the roof. They were detained
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