Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison is located in Lushun (旅順), a port-side suburb of Dalian (大連), Liaoning (遼寧), China. First built by Russian troops in 1902, Lushun Prison was later used and extended by the Japanese army in 1907, the prison had been abandoned after 1945.
Nowadays, the prison stands as a historical monument to commemorate the dark period in Chinese history and opens to the public as a museum.
The prison is around 26,000 square meters, including approximately 15 factories.
Inside the prison proper were corridors of prison cells that housed 6 to 8 prisoners per cell. The cells can’t be any larger than 8×10 feet so you can imagine the harsh conditions the prisoners had to endure everyday.
From 1902 to 1945, the prison had housed more than 450,000 war prisoners, dissidents and opposition members captured by Russians and Japanese.
At the northeast corner of the prison, there is a small red bricked house which was once used for executing the prisoners, from where you can see a gallows and an unearthed wooden-barrel coffin containing an executed inmate inside.
