Notable Prisoners
Many prisoners were members of the intelligentsia, and represent the cream of Tsarist and revolutionary-period Russia. These include:
- Alexander Anisimov (ru:Анисимов, Александр Иванович (искусствовед))- art restoration expert and art historian
- Nikolai Antsiferov - historian
- Vladimir Artemyev - inventor
- Sergei Askoldov (alias S. Alekseev, born Sergei Alekseyevich Kozlov), philosopher and theologian
- Mikhail Bakhtin - historian
- Vladimir N. Beneshevich - historian, paleographer
- A.V.Bobrishev-Pushkin - descendant of Decembrist Pavel Sergeievich Bobrishev-Pushkin
- Osip Braz - artist
- Leonid Feodorov - Bishop and Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church.
- Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky - priest, scientist, encyclopaedist
- Konstantine Gamsakhurdia — Georgian writer
- G.J.Gordon - historian
- A.K.Gorsky - poet
- Archimandrite Illarion (Troitsky, ru:Иларион (Троицкий)) - Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy
- Academician Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov - philologist
- Mirjaqip Dulatuli- Kazakh writer
- I.V. Popov - Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy
- Varlam Shalamov - writer
- Vladimir V. Tchernavin - ichthyologist
- H.H.Vinogradov - ethnographer
- Oleg V. Volkov - writer
- M.N.Voronoy - poet
- Jamo bey Hajinski - State Controller and Minister of Transportation, Postal Service and Telegraph of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- Nariman bey Narimanbeyov - State Controller of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- Hamid bey Shahtakhtinski - Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Naftaly Frenkel was at first a prisoner, but later became commander of the camp.
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