Lubyanka

[loo-byahng-kuh]

noun

a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.

Origin of Lubyanka

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

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Contemporary Examples of lubyanka

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

Following the superintendent of police and talking loudly the crowd went in the direction of the Lubyanka Street.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy