Lukyanivska Prison

Lukyanivska Prison (Ukrainian: Лук'янівська в'язниця, transliterated: "Luk'yanivs'ka v'yaznitsya"), officially SIZO#13, is a famous historical prison in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, located in the central Lukyanivka neighborhood of the city. Though the facility is now functioning as a pre-conviction detention center (Ukrainian: слідчий ізолятор, transliterated slidchyi izolyator, literally: "investigation isolation facility") it is still colloquially called a "prison". The compound now includes minor examples of the historical architecture.

Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova stated in September 2011 that while the facility was designed for 2,850 inmates, 3,800 were held there at the time; she also pointed out that 47 inmates with active tuberculosis threatened the health of other inmates and personnel. It is reported that there is no hot water in the facility. According to TVi constitutional rights of prisoners has been violated in the institute. In April 2012 Kiev Prosecutor Anatoliy Melnyk stated the facility was and had been regularly overcrowded.

Notable inmates; Felix Dzerzhinsky, Maxim Litvinov, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Yulia Tymoshenko, Josyf Slipyj, Maksym Rylsky, Oleg Orlov, Sergei Parajanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Nikolai Kibalchich, Irina Kakhovskaya, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Moisei Uritsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Nikolay Bauman, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Yuriy Lutsenko.