Theme Week Moscow – The Lubyanka Building

19 September 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Lubyanka Building © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/GFDL

Lubyanka Building © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/GFDL

The Lubyanka is the popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. 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.   read more…

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