Just a few people convicted under Article 70 of the Soviet criminal code.
The decree is being prepared as part of a rewriting of the Soviet criminal code.
One of the follow-on machines, Demon, was built to crack a specific Soviet code.
The ringleaders arrested following the coup will be charged under four paragraphs of the Soviet criminal code.
Article 209 of the Soviet criminal code defined vagrancy as a crime punishable by at least one year in prison, the police say.
After regaining of independence in 1990, the largely modified Soviet legal codes were in force for about a decade.
The prisoners whose names are on the amnesty lists are those condemned under two articles of the Soviet criminal code.
Local advocates hope such interest will influence the current task before the new national legislature to rewrite the existing Soviet criminal code.
He was sentenced under Article 58, Paragraphs 10 and 14 of the Soviet legal code.
A new article, 190, was included in the Soviet criminal code in 1960s.