The prisons of Odessa are locations permanently penned into history.
For example, Lustdorf Prison in Odessa held the likes of Lev Bronstein, better known the world over as Leonid Trotsky as a result of his early revolutionary inclinations. It also held Mishka Yaponchik, better known as Mishka Jap the (in)famous Jewish mafia leader and revolutionary who became a touchstone figure for Issac Babel’s equally famous Jewish criminal Benya Krik in The Odessa Tales.
