 Sukhanovo Prison

Sukhanovka, short for Sukhanovskaya osoborezhimnaya tyur'ma () 'Sukhanovo special-regime prison,' was a prison established by the NKVD under N. I. Yezhov in 1938 for "particularly dangerous enemies of the people" on the grounds of the old Ekaterinskaia Pustyn' Monastery near Vidnoye, just south of Moscow.Known officially as Special Object 110 (), it was said to be worse than the Lubyanka, Lefortovo, or Butyrka prisons in Moscow itself.