Russia / Soviet Union: The Lubyanka Building, Lubyanka Square, Moscow, 2010. Photo by A. Savin (CC BY-SA 3.0 License)

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

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