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Lubyanka Building
Headquarters of the FSB in Moscow, Russia
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Lubyanka ( Russian: Лубянка, IPA:[\[lʊˈbʲankə\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian "Help:IPA/Russian")) is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the FSB on Lubyanka Square[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubyanka_Building#cite_note-1) in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. It was previously the national headquarters of the KGB. Soviet hammer-and-sickles can still be seen on the building's facade.
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Lubyanka (Russian: ÐÑбÑнка, IPA: [lÊËbʲankÉ]) is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the FSB on Lubyanka Square in the Meshchansky District of Moscow, Russia. It is a large Neo-Baroque building with a facade of yellow brick designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by Aleksey Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. It was previously the national headquarters of the KGB. Soviet hammer-and-sickles can still be seen on the building's facade.
Count János Eszterházy (Hungarian: [ËjaËnoÊ ËÉstÉrhaËzi]; rarely Slovak: Ján Esterházi; March 14, 1901 â March 8, 1957) was a prominent politician of Hungarian ethnicity in inter-war Czechoslovakia and later in the First Slovak Republic.
WÅadysÅaw KochaÅski (noms de guerre "Bomba" and "Wujek"; 7 November 1918 â 12 December 1980) was an infantry captain in the Polish Army during World War II.
Gerrit Hendricus Maria van der Waals (24 April 1920 â 11 August 1948) was a Dutch officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and a member of the wartime resistance.
Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (German: [ËnøËtÉ]; 7 October 1884 â 11 September 1941) was a German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
Gerrit Hendricus Maria van der Waals (24 April 1920 â 11 August 1948) was a Dutch officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and a member of the wartime resistance.
Nikolai Krestinsky1883–1938 · diplomat
János Esterházy1901–1957 · politician
WÅadysÅaw KochaÅski1918–1980 · military officer
Gerrit van der Waals1920–1948 · resistance fighter
WÅadysÅaw Anders1892–1970 · military officer
Fritz Noether1884–1941 · mathematician
Raoul Wallenberg1912 · architect