Lubyanka

[ loo-byahng-kuh ]

noun

1. a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lubyanka¹

From the Russian word Lyubyánʾka, named after the adjacent street and square, now Dzerzhinsky Street and Square

Example Sentences

We watch Babel beaten, just before his death, in “Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940.”

From The Daily Beast

Following the superintendent of police and talking loudly the crowd went in the direction of the Lubyanka Street.

From Project Gutenberg