New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church is group of saints of the Russian Orthodox Church martyred or persecuted after the October Revolution of 1917. Their memorial is held annually at the end of January or beginning of February.
President Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow at the consecration of the huge temple of the New Martyrs in the Sretensky Monastery next door to the former NKVD headquarters
Lubyanka Building
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Lubyanka is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the Border Guard Service, and its affiliated prison, 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 be seen on the building's facade.
The Lubyanka as originally built, as the headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company, before 1917
The Lubyanka in 1961.
The Lubyanka during renovations in 1983, with the left half still lower.