Lubyanka prison

The Lubyanka (Russian: ???????) 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.

See also

• Butyrka prison
• GULag
• List of Soviet Union prison sites that detained Poles