more than 20 inmates. They took turns to sleep on the three-level bunk bed and on the floor. Detention for months or even years in those conditions, often manipulated by the investigators, was often a method to press the suspects. In 1983 the prison was deemed unsuitable for women and minors. The prison was mostly used for common criminals, but many Soviet dissidents from Leningrad were held there during the investigations and trials. The judicial reforms of the 1990s made long pre-trial detentions available only with approval of the courts. Currently no more than six inmates can be held in a cell originally designed for solitary confinement. In 1993 a museum was opened inside the prison devoted to the history of the prison, famous inmates and unusual objects found on the detainees. In April 1995 the monument To the victims of Political repressions made by Mikhail Shemyakin was installed on the embankment across the Neva River from the prison. It depicts two bronze sphinxes with pretty women's faces as seen from the residential houses on the embankment and bare skulls as seen from the prison's side of the river. There is a stylized window with prison bars between the sphinxes. On the granite base of the monument there are inscriptions with quotes from Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Daniil Andreyev, Dmitry Likhachev, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Galanskov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Vysotsky and Vladimir Bukovsky. In December 2006 a monument to poet Anna Akhmatova by Galina Dodonova was erected across the Neva River opposite the prison according to her will in her poem Requiem. In December 2006 a copy of the monument was installed in a corridor of the prison itself. Closure In summer 2006 Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) announced that the prison would be relocated to a new facility in the Kolpinsky District on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. After the relocation is complete the Kresty building will be sold at auction. It is anticipated that the prison building will be transferred into a hotel-entertainment complex. The available options are limited as the prison is considered a protected architectural landmark and only very limited redesign is possible. Kresty 2 The new remand prison, Kresty 2, was completed in 2017 in Kolpino, a suburb located 20 miles outside of St. Petersburg. It was constructed at a cost of $378 million. It is built like a small town, containing