Lubyanka Building
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Lubyanka 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 fac
Lubyanka Building
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.
KGB
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The Committee for State Security, abbreviated as KGB was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies includin
Lubyanka Building
…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. The Lubyanka building is home to the Lubyanka prison, the headquarters of the…
Cell doors at the KGB Cells Museum in Tartu, Estonia in 2007
KGB special operative Igor Morozov (left) sits on top of the BTR-60 armoured vehicle during his assignment to the Badakhshan Province, c. 1982.
Head of KGB in Lithuania Eduardas Eismuntas, January 1990
The former building of the KGB in Vilnius, Lithuania