Aptly nicknamed the Polar Wolf, the jail sits above the Arctic Circle and is described as a “particular regime colony”, with temperatures within the area plummeting to -30C in winter.
It is a lot on the outskirts of civilisation that it makes it almost unimaginable for guests to achieve the positioning.
Navalny was transported to the jail from his earlier incarceration on the Melekhovo colony, roughly 4 hours from Moscow, the place he had been serving a two-year sentence.
Throughout his time in jail he suffered with well being points, maybe because of being poisoned with Novichok, for which he had required life-saving therapy within the West.
Reporting debilitating again ache, abdomen ache and numbness in his legs, the opposition politician was denied entry to medical data, remedy and topic to hourly evening checks.
On 22 January, he defined how the jail wardens would usually wake all people up at 5am to play the Russian nationwide anthem.
“And proper after that – the second most necessary track within the nation: Shaman’s ‘Ya Russky,'” he stated, a track which interprets to “I am Russian” and has develop into an unofficial anthem of Vladimir Putin’s.
Nonetheless, his humour and charisma had been nonetheless obvious in December when he gave an perception into the 1,200 mile (1,930km) journey from Melekhovo to Kharp.
“The 20 days of my transportation had been fairly exhausting, however I am nonetheless in a very good temper, as befits a Santa Claus,” he joked.