Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center

Marina Khodorkovsky has received official notification from the Federal Penitentiary Service, that her son has arrived in the Segezha FBU IR-7 penal colony in the Karelia Region, just east of the Finnish border.

Segezha City, where the colony is located is on the west coast of Lake Vygozero, on the route of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. The 227 km canal was built in 20 months by prisoners of Stalin's gulags. Some estimates suggest that up to 100,000 people died constructing the canal.

According to the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Republic of Karelia, the colony can hold 1342 people.