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Lubyanka Building
Sign in to savepopular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia
Key facts
- Architectural style
- Neo-Baroque
- Location
- Moscow , Russia
- Current tenants
- FSB
- Architect
- Alexander V. Ivanov
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Named after
- Bolshaya Lubyanka Street
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Krasnoselsky District
- Owned by
- Federal Security Service
- Image
- Lubyanka CDM view from Panoramic view point 05-2015 img03.jpg
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- architectural style
- Stalinist architecture
- located on street
- Lubyanka Square
- occupant
- Federal Security Service
- postal code
- 107031
- different from
- Łubianka
- Commons category
- Lubyanka Building
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lubyanka (Russian: Лубянка, IPA: [lʊˈbʲankə]) is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the FSB on Lubyanka Square in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. It was previously the national headquarters of the KGB. Soviet hammer-and-sickles can still be seen on the building's facade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lubyanka Building” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.