User:PyshnyPhilipp/Penal colony "Snowy owl"

"Snowy owl" - is a penal colony for lifelong incarceration. Located in Kharp urban-type settlement in Priuralsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, on a bank of the Sob river. The capacity of colony is 1014 places, around 450 of them are occupied now.

Kharp was founded in 1961 during Salekhard–Igarka Railway construction. Colony bacame a core of a new settlement. In 2004 it obtained a status of a lifelong incarceration colony.

In 2018 for the first time in history of Post-Soviet Russia, Anvar Masalimov, a prisoner sentenced to a lifelong imprisonment, was released from colony.