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- After the dissolution of the KGB in 1991, the Lubyanka became the headquarters of the Border Guard Service of Russia, as well as the Lubyanka prison, and is one directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).
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The Lubyanka building is home to the Lubyanka prison, the headquarters of the Border Guard Service, a KGB museum, and a subsection of the FSB. [2] Part of the prison was turned into a prison museum, but a special authorization is required for visits.
Feb 22, 2021 · KGB Headquarters (Lubyanka Building, Moscow 1919 - 1992) Lubyanka is the popular name for the headquarters of the Soviet State Security bodies from 1919 to 1992 on Lubyanka Square in Moscow,...
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by Alyssa Rider The building now known as Lubyanka was originally several buildings. The two largest were originally designed by Alexander Ivanov and were separated by a street. The largest of these two was built in 1898 and the smaller in 1902 by the All-Russia Insurance Company. Insurance and banking were rapidly growing and profitable industries...
By Alyssa Rider The building is not the only part of Lubyanka with a history. The square outside, also known as Lubyanka (Лубянская площадь in Russian), has gone through some changes as well, in both name and appearance. While it began as a small, circular island creating a traffic roundabout, it has since grown into a two-part park.
By Alyssa Rider The Solovetsky Stone is a monument located across the street from Lubyanka Square in a separated area known as Musuem Park. It was created in commemoration of the political prisoners who were repressed under the GULAG system. The Solovetsky Stone is a large granite block brought from the Solovetsky Islands, where the Solovetsky Spec...
By Katherine Weaver (Spring, 2018) The stories of Moscow’s Lubyanka District were recently opened for me through a guided walking tour by Bridge to Moscow, a Russian company that specializes in unique English-language tours. The tour centered on the well-known Lubyanka, but also discussed other structures in the same neighborhood that spoke to the ...
Aug 20, 2009 · Lubyanka was the heart of darkness of the old USSR, the fabled headquarters of the KGB and home of an infamous jail where spies, political dissidents, and various enemies of the State were...
Feb 11, 2014 · Not far from the Lubyanka building used to be the KGB's reception office. This was where relatives of those detained would come to bring food and letters to their loved ones.
May 26, 2023 · The Lubyanka building served as the headquarters of successive Soviet secret police and security agencies. After the revolutions of 1917, the Bolsheviks founded the Cheka; this was replaced by the NKVD in 1934, and the KGB in 1954.
Because of the close proximity of the KGB ex-headquarters, Lubyanka Square (or just Lubyanka) became one of the most notorious symbols of the Soviet system of repressions.
