Pyatak Prison: The Russian Alcatraz
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- About 460 km north of Moscow, in the Vologda province, a small lake rests among a sprawling woodland. The lake is called Novozero and its middle stands an island called Ognenny Ostrov. Despite its name meaning “Fiery Island” or “Fire Island”, it is surrounded by ice most of the year, connected to the mainland only by a narrow bridge.
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Everyone knows this channel is bias and an english translation of a chilean fascist TH-cam channel visualpolitek.
You have ANOTHER channel? TH-cam is gonna be renamed SimonTube before long...
@@N1ghtH4wk86 Really he seems to be rather fond of commie pieces of shit. Ig commie or facists can both get fucked. So, if you're a commie pretending to have the morale high ground over a fascist you're a tool.
@@padraig5335 I dont anyone with your name seriously. Commies were in the Right and United States was in the wrong. plain and simple.
@@N1ghtH4wk86 Hahhaha when did even say America was in the right? Now your making assumptions.
"we stopped giving people the death penalty, because it's inhumane"
How about a punishment worse than one thousand deaths?
"sounds good"
If you watch the video they did not stop because its "inhumane" to execute. But because they wanted to join EU during that time.
and why does the EU do it?
@@rustyspurs771 The council of Europe is a different institution...
@@Numa2k you mean the council of Europe
@@Numa2k did you really mean Russia when you said they tried to join EU? 😂
I am from Vologda region, only 100 km from this place, so I'd like to say few things:
1) as someone already noticed here in the comments, "pyatak" normally would mean a coin with the value of 5 (for example, rubles). It could also mean a small piece of land. So in this case they probably refer to the shape of the island, that is small and round like "pyatak".
2) it's not that far north, and there is no tundra there, but there are lots of forests instead
3) it's not that cold there either. Yes, it can be quite cold in winter, and the winter can last for 7 months of the year, but at the same time it gets pretty warm in summer (30-35°C is not something completely unusual, but it doesn't get that warm every summer). Anyway, I didn't swim in Novozero, but I am pretty sure it's easily done in summer, because I swam myself in Belozero when I was a child, and it was completely fine, and Novozero is smaller, so it gets warm faster. So icy waters are true but not completely.
4) finally, Novozero means "new lake", while Belozero which is another bigger lake closeby means "white lake", so there is just a little confusion there;)
I would also like to add that first time I heard about this prison was from my boyfriend who is not Russian, and it was kinda funny to learn that I lived that close to the place but never heard of it😅 but I guess I just wasn't interested enough.
Anyway, thanks for the video, I have learnt a lot!
Was my first reaction too, no tundra there. It is not Yakutsk, come on Simon! Good I read your reaction first. Your English is pretty awesome by the way.
as a Smirnova are you related with smirnov mentioned in video ? :D
@@leok3347 I'm absolutely not😁 this surname is one of the most common in Russia, so there is nothing strange about it appearing everywhere😊
Thanks for the information.
Thank you for all the extra information! It means even more coming from someone who lives that close to the place.
"American prisons are tough"
Pyatak: "Hold my bucket"
Hold my bucket....😂😂😂
As someone who spent time in an American prison - Shit. At least I had some books and some time on the yard.
@@AtemiRaven How long were you in for?
Sounds like a great place for societal miscreants that need to suffer along with their victims. Lets send all the Trump Traitors in our Government there with them.
I was locked up for about two and a half years.
After hearing about Pyatak I’m going to sleep like a baby knowing one of the men responsible for the Beslan School Siege is there
If only the terrorists bearing the Russian flag would join him. Only the losing side's criminials ever see the light of justice.
@Claude Bedard It was because putting all them people together makes for a hot a sweaty environment, not child rape!
@Claude Bedard There ars no reports of any sexual abuse during the seige, stop making accusations as it was horrific enough without extra sensationalism!
@Claude Bedard Just like they don't report as much as they should about "the nation of peace" (Russia) as well
One of the terrorists (only one in fact survived) responsible for the siege is serving his life sentence in Polar Owl colony, and not in Pyatak. P.S English is not my mother tongue so, sorry for possible mistakes
Guard: You've been sentenced to Pyatak.
Prisoner: Are you _sure_ you can't do the gunshot to the back of the head thing anymore?
Probably the best way to die.
@@jpgrumbach8562 indeed, probably is. Besides getting injected opiates until you fall asleep and not waking up.
@@aw9389, yes, lovely. Certainly a human right that must be introduced.
To know to have such a possibility would be a real enhancement of life quality.
think id be trying to get myself killed too if that place was waiting
@@aw9389 True, technically most of the lethal injected drugs are illegal by the US federal gov.
Some prisons in Russia's far north are so remote that they don't have walls and only minimal security. If you decide to leave, there's nowhere for you to go, only the desolate wilderness.
Dame, I can imagine a guard saying “your free to go if you want, your also free to come back.”
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh me like that. If I don’t fezzes to death I can go on a 5-7 day walk threw the country side and come back for supper.
And of course the Demogorgons
Yeah we’ve seen Stranger Things buddy
@@barbarossa1780 i’m talking to Bike Life not you you mad fool. We’re on the same team here
My dad used to be a guard at a psychiatric prison in kentucky, and he told me what it's like in there. Compared to pyatyak, the psych hospital seems like an extended summer camp
Well those people are insane so get better treatment as they are not considered accountable for their actions
What prison?
Metal hospitals are better than regular American prisons as well
@@Deadtileyedie not by much. speaking from experience
my dad used to be the driver's instructor in women' section of government sponsored auto-school in U.S.S.R. ...currently he's bald , sick and insane , and still wakes up in a cold sweat screaming in the night
My girlfriend just looked over my shoulder and said, "Is that Moby."
It is. This is what moby has been doing
I hope you said yes
Nobody listened to techno, now let's go!
Isn't it?
@@williamthomson7631 LOL. I hope Moby is surfing TH-cam and sees this. 😂
Before long TH-cam will be completely taken over by Simon...and I cannot wait
That is his goal.
It's like watching Simon tube! How many channels can one person be on? I think it would be very cool to see a day in the life of the Simon. Maybe a new channel just for that?
loxxxton poxxxton Simon Sez??? Lol
Well, we might have to make a Biographic about him!
Whistler-Tube xD
Simon is such a good host. You can tell he loves what he does.
I do. I'm incredibly lucky that this is what I get to do for a living.
One: I've got not idea what you mean about the changing of the channel name, that doesn't happen. Two: Of course stuff is going to get left out, but the videos are like 20 minutes long which is pretty above average for YT.
Geographics don't play dumb, you have multiple channels and that's where the confusion came from. As for Simon as a host, I find him annoying and I usually end up turning the videos off 1 min in.
@@realkushman You complain about him as a host and yet you clicked on the video. I don't understand you at all.
@Tru Quality There are more channels on which Simon is the host. Do your research before saying that.
Inmate: These desolate lonesome days have really made me self reflect I think I have finally found God.
Guard: He’s faking it.
God is the only thing that can counter this utter Hell I have been sentenced to. The only thing that makes sense.
Naaah, it ain't that bad. You're alive, aren't ya?
@@tanekrune5873 Death would probably be preferred over life in isolation
@@daboss640 Since I wrote that, covid happened and I'm gonna agree with you. I haven't seen a friendly face since shortly after I made that comment and not since. But I suppose this particular prison is our own.
Inmate 1: "I think I have finally found God.".
Inmate 2: "Ah! You looked down the back of the sofa, didn't you? That's where I usually find things I've lost."......
Well those guys are the worst of the worst. Ive seen dudes claiming to have found God in jail after being arrested for something minor and a few weeks later they go back to jail for some heinous shit. A lot of it is in fact manipulation. Cons know that they can be treated better if they claim a Christian belief. They also know parole boards look at Christians in a better light than atheists or muslims
I really enjoy this channel as well as Biographical. I'm currently in the hospital with a shoulder infection in the midst of this pandemic, so we are allowed no visitation. Adds up to long hours alone in a room. Channels such as these give me a reprieve from the tedium, since they capture my interest and focus my mind on something else for awhile. So I would like to thank you all for creating all this content. Amazing. Thanks.
Hope you are doing better.
Get well soon
That was heavy and dark. It’s the level of detail in these videos that brings me back to all of your team’s channels. Top shelf entertainment.
Thank you.
Cheers on the first upload! I'm very excited to see more from this channel!
Thanks, we are excited to see what everyone thinks.
I just subscribed, how bout that
If I was a victim of one of the inmates and I were still alive, every January 1st I’d send them two packages consisting of nothing!
Or a printed picture of a hand, flipping them the bird.
LOVE IT!!!!!
Your videos represent a clear and outstanding contribution to the TH-cam environment. When you consider all the hate videos, the UFO and conspiracy trash out there it is so refreshing to see something that educates and expands our world.
Thank you :)
Simon is a beast, starting informational channels left, right and center
You do realize they for every channel, he is paid quite handsomely for reading information off a screen, right?
He then spends several minutes a video promoting some trash product for which he is also paid.
@@Aaron-nm1ob Yeah, thats the "joke". Its slowly becoming a real industry to produce content, instead of just someone sitting in a basement making money out of the blue.
Simontube
maan this dude is everywhere
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I've herd from Russians in the U.S. that have no worries about going to Prison here and refer to it as a Country club compared to Russia . My family survived WWII in the Netherlands my Grandfather survived Buegenwalt as a Political Prisoner he spent 6 years in a Nursing home and could not walk at the end of his life . I ask if it was difficult . He said it was a easy . Good food soft bed no guns and birds to watch and nice people Be grateful
what kind of friends you have if they all been to prison?
@@funitoo interesting ones
@@funitoo -- how 'bout political? They are labeled and treated worse than a common criminal. Just ask anyone who lived in the "wonderful, enviable" land in the communist bloc.
@@1951mytube I was born and raised in the USSR. I had a lovely childhood. If I had to choose between the childhood I had or a new one in the US I'd choose what I had without second thoughts. Though I would not choose a life as an adult in the USSR. But not because there was some danger from the government that so many nuts keep banging about.
Would like to see that last prisoner's paintings.
Same, I've been looking around for pictures but found nothing. Also: am I the only one who thinks it is weird that he got access to oil paint while earlier it was said that they were not even allowed to read books? Oil paint is expensive too...
@@webwolfy7310 Considering his crime compared to others, I can see why they would let him at least paint.
@@webwolfy7310
I guess if a prisoner is around long enough and isn't a fuck-up the authorities relax some.
i think the paint was sent by friends or family
plot-twist: he is "painting" with his own blood on the bare walls.
The one person, that did not go crazy, btw.
Whoever thought this place up needs to produce a horror movie, because this place is an unbelievable nightmare. Fantastic first video guys, I am very impressed.
Glad to see the channel is active, Great first upload, cant wait for more!
One of the best youtube pages out of them all. Please never stop. I cant believe you've only been around for less than a year and you're already at the top in terms of quality
I caught up on all my bio graphic episodes today and felt sad at the prospect of having to wait a few days for a new video, but then what do I see.....a new channel about Geographical places with historical merit. YES Simon and the gang, thanks, keep them coming!!
A channel focusing on the mysterious and unknown places on earth is fantastic. There are so many places I'm curious about, I'm highly anticipating what's in store for us.
Zohar star gate, anonymous, matthew santoro, that channel
Theyre good for those types of docos :)
@@lolajune1879 Thank you. I'll look them up tomorrow. 😊
@@eddiepiszczek4820 welcome :)
I'm doing one about my kitchen and sending it to my wife.
Simon is one of the hardest working man. Ps anyone involved in making these top notch videos is also included in that.
It's a team effort. We all work pretty hard :)
4 years later and they haven't even slowed down!
"the motive for the killing?"
-- "I was drunk."
🤭
Man, you must be a complete badass when you still come up on top after this place.
Great content! You guys are crazy running all these channels. I love it! Keep the good stuff coming
I realize that Harry Potter is complete fiction, and fantasy at that. But as you described the psychosis caused by the isolation and solitude, I kept thinking of the prisoners of Azkaban. Even without special wraith-like demons hovering to suck out life, personal happiness, or the like, the level of isolation and the volatility of the characters who escaped or were released hit a lot closer to reality. And that is tremendously disturbing.
Thanks for posting!
Wonderful video. As usual! Thank you!
Great video about a horrifying topic, super excited to see this channel grow! Thanks Simon and crew
Hello Simon 😁,
As always one of my favorites love all that you and the Team do! Keep up the fantastic work . Love the channel!
As bad as this place is, it seems the guards do time with the inmates.
They work in shifts, usually 3 months work/3 months off to family and a good salary
Basic fact a well payed guard is a good guard
I wondered how the work would effect the guards myself.
Idgaf what they pay! No way!
If i remember correctly the wooden bridge from Fire Island connects to Sweet Island which houses a resort for prison guards. Another bridge connects Sweet Island with land.
Awesome video Simon!
I don't know how you do it, Simon, but I am impressed. Entertaining and informative as ever!
I think I may have liked this better than most of the biographics! Either way, all your channels are amazing
It's about 1:30am and got woken up about to listen to some of his videos and let it lull me back to sleep. He's got such a great storytelling voice Im so glad I found his videos
Just discovered you had this channel too Simon! 😂 I'm loving it so far!
A new Simon Wistler channel about one of my all time favorite subjects. Nice
"Ptyatak" (stress on the last syllable: pyat'ak, like in 'cognac') would translate more like 'fiver' or 'a coin of a value of 5'.
Or "a small patch", often referring to a small patch of land.
This was an eye opening and sober commentary on the use of isolation and lack of stimuli in the prison systems in general! Well put and thank you!
I LOVE your channel and I can’t stop watching!
I love this new channel. The video was great as always. I’m excited for what else you have for us
This is bloody brilliant! I cannot wait to see more from this channel ❤️
great vid , I particularly liked 2 points ; A) the longer format and B) that you concluded with that its not up to us to judge their pison system
A bit late to the party here, youtube recommended me this video and I was happy to click on it. I love the theme of the channel, "history, one place at a time". I'm already subscribed to TopTenz, TodayIFoundOut, and Biographics so I already know I enjoy how Simon Whistler presents information. I hope to see a lot more from this channel!
I get so much from your efforts, Simon and Co. really, thank you.One request: please, back that camera up bout 4-5'.
Ahhhh yes! More Simon is definitely what this dying medium needs. Really glad that you're onto places as well, such a niche focus but such literal history to be explored. Will be counting down til the next upload.
Keep up the good work you champ!
Thank you Simon. Learnt a few things from this and some of your other vids today. Take care of your health though, this is quite a few channels you're in now.
Loved the video!
Another great, entertaining and most of all informative channel from y'all, and I love it all ready. I could listen to Simon read from the phone book lol!!!!!
Simon, I have no idea how you work so hard. I enjoyed this very much and of course I subscribed!
Thanks again you Geographics! Awsome and informative video as usual. Keep up the great work.
Always good stuff Simon. It was a little jumpy as far as the transitions but the info and photos is what I watch your stuff for so thumbs up!
Thoroughly enjoy the details and history. Can’t wait to see what else is coming.
Simon, you were recommended by a friend via biographics only 2 months ago. Since then I've tried to watch, or at least listen to, as often as allows.
I love the succint delivery and appreciate the style.
It's a delight watching you work 🙂
Thank you :)
I learned something new. That is what I like the most about this channel.
You present this material so well, man! The information is well researched. I'm really enjoying the Geographics videos. Good stuff!
As always: informative and fascinating content which simon presents in an excellent manner. Well done to you, the writers, researchers and all involved!
Came across this channel by chance! Delighted I did! Looking forward to future content. Wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 🍀 ✨
Brilliant content! I enjoy your content a lot especially during this time thank you.
Very interesting! Well done Simon! Thankyou.
When he mentioned flamethrowers being used in the Beslan what most people think is the traditional style of flamethrower, as in the type that spews fuel that is then lit at the muzzle by either electrical of chemical means, but in this case what we're talking about was probably the RPO-A ''Shmel'' aka bumblebee. Actual flamethrowers, the kind we're used to seeing in ww2 movies are not used anymore by really any modern militaries and have been replaced by shoulder launched incendiary rocket systems such as the RPO, due to their much greater range, the misconception probably stems from the fact that RPO stands for reaktivnyj pehotnyj ognemet, which roughly translates to rocket propelled infantry flamethrower. Essentially it servers the same purpose as a regular flamethrower, with the added benefit of being able to burn you to a crisp from several hundred meters away, as opposed to something like 20m, which the good old M2 flamethrower used by the US during ww2 and Vietnam, was capable of.
So instead of picturing a bunch of FSB guys kicking down a door and spraying a room with burning napalm, picture them putting a rocket of literal hellfire into a window, less exciting I know, but that's more likely what actually happened, not that being burned by an RPO is any less brutal, deadly or painful, at least for the guy on the wrong end of the rocket, but I do suppose it's a bit less of an intimate experience for the guy shooting it.
I LOVE THIS! This is what I've been saying and it seems that I am being heard...it isn't just people that have stories to tell, places do as well. Keep it up...and I hope that you guys will branch out once again, as objects have stories too...LOTS AND LOTS of stories! 😁😁😁😁😍😍😍😍
Great video, Simon.
I noticed right away that unlike your other channels, in which you seem to just spout off information, however fascinating, in this channel, with this story, you seem to have some investment in the tale. I don't know if it's because you have a larger hand in bringing the story to us, or what. But it's like you're more "here", if that makes sense. Your posture also seems more relaxed, as though you're having a conversation with the viewer over tea or coffee or cocktails.
Overall, a great start to the new channel. You got my sub.
Glad I ran across your very intelligent videos. Well done! I’ll keep watching.
I have been waiting for this channel to get started, and TH-cam only just notifies me of it now? I'm a day late!
All of us watching and commenting on this video are true OGs of this channel. Can't wait for the content to come!
Loving this channel amazing stories I've never heard about. Thanks
this is my favorite out of your channels now!
Oooo a new channel? Yay! Awesome vid too :).
Hello Simon , just wanted to say I love all of your channels , you’ve had a huge impact in inspiring me to change my major in college to become an educator , thank you so much !
Amazing. Thank you for saying so :) :)
Really enjoyed the post it was very interesting , looking forward to seeing more
Your videos are awesome! Subscribed & 👍ed! 😊
1:45 - Chapter 1 - A history of pyatak
4:10 - Chapter 2 - Desolation
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Isolation
9:25 - Chapter 4 - The inhabitants of pyatak
12:50 - Chapter 5 - The psychiatric effects
17:10 - Chapter 6 - Light at the end of the tunnel ?
I just found this video and immediately subscribed!! I love the work that you and your staff put out over all of your channels. Thank you and your staff for the hard work that y'all do :)
Thank you for the video. Informative and enjoyable 😊
Excellent job on this documentary, thank you!
A prison made from a monastery. Irony deficiency corrected in spades.
What about pinochle??
What's so ironic about it? We in Russia had numbers of them. Who knows, maybe hundreds. Monasteries make fine prisons: well guarded and devoid of life and joy. This is probably why the Czars put those they could not execute into monasteries.
@@ursa_margo Every Christian nation, so practically every country in Europe, did that. Monasteries and covenants.
Yaaassss! I've been waiting for this!♡♡♡♡
Hope you enjoy it.
You killed it as usual! Keep up the good work!
Great again Simon. Fascinating topic and informative and entertaining. Great work 👌
Like you didn't have enough to do! Like this channel. Expecting good things
We plan on delivering :)
@@geographicstravel you must sit and read to a cameras 25hrs a day
This is awesome. There are so many places to illustrate their histories. Tower of London, Taj Mahal, many castles in Europe. However, I suggest a little known Russian settlement along the Northern California coast called Fort Ross. Yes, a Russian colony in California before it was part of the USA. It is still there today.
So many places to choose from. Thanks for the suggestions.
Loving the new channel, Biographics is also a daily fix too
Very informative keep the vids rolling u got my sub 👍
This channel is AMAZING
Glad you're enjoying it :)
This is definitely my kind of thing. I could never get into Biographics, but I think I'll love Geographics.
Glad to hear it :)
@@geographicstravel what's the upload schedule going to look like.
This is my go-to video on Mondays right before work--life ain't that bad!
As always Simon. Great.
"possibly by friendly fire" No lol, definitely from friendly fire.
Pretty sure I remember them gassing everyone in the gym prior to entry.
From everything I have read the military just went in guns blazing shooting whoever was in front of them. Men, women, children, terrorist it didn’t matter. Then the government shouted “law and order” and shit like that and acted like they were heroes rather than being on par if not worse than the terrorists. Disgusting.
@@LancasterResponding About a dozen highly trained specops that died serving as human shields for hostages would disagree with what you read.
@@LancasterResponding You're talking crazy shit. We still remember it all. The terrorists began to drive children and teachers into classrooms and shoot them there, negotiations with them lasted for several days. This did not lead to anything, the special forces began to act too late and for this delay, for these stupid attempts to negotiate, the special forces paid with their lives. It was a lesson to us - don't negotiate with evil.
GT
@@candycabngfl
That was the Theater incident, not the Gym.
Sounds like you should avoid being a multiple murderer. Life is so tough
Yep def not the best life choice you could make, especially in Russia.
Or avoid being one of the roughly 1 in 20 convicts who was convicted of a crime he or she didn't commit, and that's in the US system, the rate of false conviction is very high in Russia, and was even higher in the Soviet days. So next time you think you are showing what a big strong morally superior person you are when you justify torture and murder against criminals, try to pretend to care about how places like that destroy their fair share of innocent people as well, not to mention the fact that many other countries manage to rehabilitate over 3/4 of the worst of the worst convicts into productive members of society who stay on the right side of the law, and they managed to pull off this feat by simply not acting like savage authoritarian jackboots.
@@22steve5150 jez , you have realy bad life , how do you know that
@@22steve5150 Ummm, one in 20 convicts aren't actually criminals in America? Where'd you get that stat? I work in a prison and have probably met about .005% who probably weren't criminals. Stop saying drug dealers aren't criminals, America! Also, the worst part of my job, which I work very hard at at trying to help people, is seeing how many people don't respond to rehabilitation. Work in the field before you come-up with b/s statistics, Steve.
Kate Ealer how is it that places like Norway have a low rate of recidivism then? Oh, right, they actually try to rehabilitate people, rather than throwing them in for profit prisons and punishing them. I wouldn’t be defending our prison system, we have one of the worst reoffender rates on earth. Obviously something is broken.
Also, bachelors of science in mental health and human services with a focus in addition, from umaine. I work in your field. Trying to get people busted for minor pot distribution back into society. It’s hard finding them jobs, and the prison mentality sticks hard. It’s wrong, what we do to low level drug offenders. The rest of the us agrees, that’s why they’re all legalizing pot.
Just came here after your Top Tenz video suggestion.....I'm glad that I did....I had never heard of this place....isolation.... a unique torture for a very sociable creation....it is no wonder that the mind will unravel....
I love all your channels Simon, keep up the good work
Simon whistler hosts all my favourite top 10s😂
The last snippet sent shivers down my spine.
How insane must you be to posses the ability to escape insanity through isolation?
Very informative, thank you.