A prison was set up in the building in 1920 ... but these days it is only open to holders of special permits. Not far from the Lubyanka building used to be the KGB's reception office.

Today, 71 years after Wallenberg was apprehended that day in Budapest and later imprisoned by the Soviet military in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, the finite details of the last days and the ...

In the summer of 1952, a collection of the Soviet Union’s most luminous Yiddish writers of prose and poetry lived out their final days in the gloom of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, caught in the ...

When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested by the Soviet secret police in the 1930s, he was taken to the notorious Lubyanka prison for interrogation. He drew a distinction between the guards “on ...

Sentenced to eight years in a labor camp, Wynne spent 18 months in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, where he was subjected to beatings and torture. Penkovsky either was shot or killed himself in prison ...

For nearly four decades, no one knew exactly how many Soviet Jews were secretly executed by the Soviet Union in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka Prison on August 12, 1952. A 1970 New York Times ...

The Burning Door of Lubyanka,” had damaged a Moscow heritage site because prominent Russian intellectuals had been detained there. Pavlensky has been in prison since November, facing vandalism ...

The records in question mostly consist of specific entries for the year 1947 in the prison registers of the Internal (Lubyanka) Prison in Moscow. They also concern internal correspondence and ...

The director of Moscow Café Number Three. On Wednesday, a soft litany sounded from a little green median at the foot of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison. There, for twelve hours straight, more than two ...