'Stolypin' Prisoners Wagon

These cars, nicknamed 'Stolypin' cars, were named after Pyotr Stolypin, Czarist Russia's Minister for the Interior, who is thought to be the first to introduce these cars, yet the next and the largest wave in the construction and utilisation of these cars took place in the second half of the 1930s, during the peak of Stalin's personality cult. Despite the cars were designed to transport up to 22 prisoners, in some cases up to 35 prisoners were placed inside two two-person and four four-person cells.