Matrosskaya Tishina

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Matrosskaya Tishina

Location	Sokolniki District, Moscow, Russia
Coordinates	55°47′31″N 37°41′49″E / 55.79194°N 37.69694°E / 55.79194; 37.69694
Opened	1945
Managed by	Federal Penitentiary Service
Governor	Abdulaev Ramazan Salikhovich

Federal State Institution IZ-77/1 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the City of Moscow is a prison located in the Sokolniki District of Moscow, Russia. The facility is commonly known as Matrosskaya Tishina (Russian: Матросская тишина, lit. "Seaman's Silence"), after the name of the street on which it is located in north-eastern Moscow. Matrosskaya Tishina is operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service, and is famous for having held several notable prisoners, including Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev; Gennady Yanaev, the leader of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt; and Alexei Navalny.