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

An American military “adviser” to the Ukrainian army — we have an unknown number over there that nobody talks about — could be captured by the Russian army or kidnapped by Russian sympathizers within Ukraine and hauled off to Moscow and slammed into Lubyanka as a spy.

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After a handover at the same Vienna apartment, Marsalek wrote in a message that the device was successfully transported to the Lubyanka — where the FSB has its headquarters in Moscow — according to prosecutors.

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"Colleagues, the sculpture in front of which we are standing is a somewhat reduced copy of the famous monument to Dzerzhinsky installed on Lubyanka Square in Moscow in 1958," Naryshkin said on the anniversary of Dzerzhinsky's birthday.

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After the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, his statue was toppled to cheers in Poland and as the Soviet Union itself crumbled in 1991 a monument to Dzerzhinsky outside the KGB headquarters on Lubyanka Square in Moscow was toppled amid rejoicing by many.

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The statue at the SVR looks remarkably similar to the one that once stood on Lubyanka Square.

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