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Lubyanka prison
The Lubyanka (Russian: Лубянка) was one of the most infamous NKVD prisons in the Soviet Union. Located in Moscow on Lubyanka Square (formerly called Dzerzhinsky Square , after former NKVD chief and Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky; the original name was restored in 1991) the Lubyanka also served as the headquarters of the KGB. Leaders of the Soviet security services from Lavrentii Beria to Yuri Andropov had offices on the third floor of the Lubyanka.
The prison figures prominently in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic study of the Soviet police state, The Gulag Archipelago.
Today, the building houses a directorate of Russia's FSB (Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации or ФСБ, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii; English: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation), as well as a museum of the KGB.
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