Lubyanka

The Lubyanka (Cyrillic: Лубянка) is the popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. It is a large building with a facade of yellow brick, designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev in 1940-1947. The Lubyanka was originally built in 1898 as the Neo-Baroque headquarters of the All-Russia Insurance Company, noted for its beautiful parquet floors and pale green walls.... more

Contained by:

Location

Geolocation:

Latitude Longitude
  • 55.7608
  • 37.6283
top ↑ top ↑

We can also tell you Lubyanka is a…

If you know more about Lubyanka, you can add more facts here »

Similar topics in Freebase

  • Tower of London

    Tower of London

    Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is...
  • Bastille

    Bastille

    The Bastille was a fortress-prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine—Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoine—best known today because of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which along with the Tennis Court Oath is considered the beginning of the French Revolution. The event was...
  • Landsberg Prison

    Landsberg Prison

    Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. The prison was used by Allied power during the Occupation of Germany for holding Nazi War Criminals....
  • Stadelheim Prison

    Stadelheim Prison

    Stadelheim Prison, in Munich's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany. Founded in 1894 it was the site of many executions, particularly by fallbeil (guillotine) during the Nazi period.
  • Presidio Modelo

    Presidio Modelo

    The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" of Panopticon design, built on the former Isla de Pinos (now the Isla de la Juventud) in Cuba. The prison was built under the dictator Gerardo Machado in the period 1926–1931, and held 6000 prisoners. Most of the survivors of the rebel attacks on Moncada...
  • Château d'If

    Château d'If

    The Château d'If is a fortress (later a prison) located on the island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul Archipelago situated in the Mediterranean Sea about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille in southeastern France. It is famous for being one of the settings of Alexandre Dumas' adventure...
  • Butyrka prison

    Butyrka prison

    Butyrka prison (Russian: Бутырка, a colloquial term for the official Бутырская тюрьма, Butyrskaya tyurma) was the central transit prison in pre-Revolutionary Russia, located in Moscow. The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century. The present prison building was...
  • Darlinghurst Gaol

    Darlinghurst Gaol

    Darlinghurst Gaol was an Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Construction on Darlinghurst Gaol wall began in 1822, with completion of some of the cellblocks in 1840. The gaol was ready for occupation in a year later, with the first prisoners occupying the gaol on 7 June 1841...
  • Boggo Road Gaol

    Boggo Road Gaol

    Boggo Road Gaol (alt. and older spelling "Bogga") was a notorious Australian prison located on Annerley Road in Dutton Park, an inner southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The site is the only surviving intact gaol in Queensland that reflects penological principles of the 19th century...
  • HM Prison Geelong

    HM Prison Geelong

    HM Prison Geelong was a maximum security Australia prison located on the corner of Myers Street and Swanston Street in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The prison was built in stages from 1849 to 1864. Its panopticon design is based on Pentonville Prison in England. The prison was officially closed in...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Lubyanka was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution