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The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny reported on Instagram for the first time from the prison camp in Pokrov.
The 44-year-old wrote on Monday that he was locked up in a “real concentration camp”.
"I have to admit that the Russian prison system has been able to surprise me," said Navalny, who has been serving a two and a half year sentence in one of Russia's most notorious penal colonies since this month.
He is with a "freshly shaved head" in penal colony No. 2 in the small town of Pokrov in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow.
He also posted an old photo of himself with hair cropped close.
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"I had no idea that it was possible to set up a real concentration camp 100 kilometers from Moscow." There are video cameras everywhere, "everyone is being watched and if the slightest violation occurs, they make a report."
At night he is woken up every hour by a guard who takes a picture of him and tells them that the convict is still in his cell.
“I think someone read (George) Orwell's' 1984 'and said,' Yeah, cool.
Let's do that.
Education through dehumanization, '”added Navalny.
Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova confirmed to Russian news agencies that she was allowed to visit her mandate in Pokrov.
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Navalny was the victim of a poison attack in Russia in August.
President Vladimir Putin's adversary was flown to Germany and treated at the Berlin Charité.
Navalny was arrested immediately after his return to Russia in January.
He was sentenced to more than two and a half years in a prison camp in February for allegedly violating his probation requirements.
The decision was strongly condemned internationally and sparked mass protests in Russia.
Navalny's appeal against the judgment was dismissed.