The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, also known by the nickname Iron Felix, commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organiza
The monument in 1991 in its original location in front of the Lubyanka Building
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
Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow
…Grigory Zakharov and incorporating a statue of Dzerzhinsky sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich, was erected on Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow in 1958, next to the Lubyanka Building. In 1918, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission was located in the buildings on Lubyanska Square, the founder and first head of which was Felix…
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.