Lontskoho Prison, Lviv
A prison of three regimes and a museum-memorial: on 24–28 June 1941 the NKVD shot 1,681 prisoners here.
The building was raised in 1889–1890 as an Austro-Hungarian gendarmerie, and the prison was added in the 1918–1920s; in 1939–1941 it was an NKVD prison, in 1941–1944 a Gestapo investigative prison, in 1944–1991 the NKGB and KGB, and until 1996 an SBU pre-trial detention centre. On the order of People's Commissar Merkulov of 23 June 1941 the NKVD "evacuated" the prisons by shooting: by the NKVD's own report, 2,464 prisoners were killed in Lviv on 22–28 June, and 1,681 people were shot at Lontskoho on 24–28 June. The National Museum-Memorial of the Victims of the Occupation Regimes opened in the former prison in 2009, director Ruslan Zabilyi; entry and tours are free.
1 Stepana Bandery Street, entrance from Iryny Kalynets Street. Tue–Fri, Sun 10:00–19:00 with a break 13:00–14:00; closed Mon and Sat; entry and tours free, tours at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00, groups of more than 10 people by booking (museum website, checked 01.10.2026).