Lubyanka
[loo-byahng-kuh]
- a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
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Origin of Lubyanka
From the Russian word Lyubyánʾka, named after the adjacent street and square, now Dzerzhinsky Street and Square
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Examples from the Web for lubyanka
Contemporary Examples
We watch Babel beaten, just before his death, in “Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940.”
Historical Examples
Following the superintendent of police and talking loudly the crowd went in the direction of the Lubyanka Street.
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