Lubyanka

'Darkness at Noon'chiefly takes place in a prison cell in the Moscow prison known as the Lubyanka.

To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011

Once the stately home office of the Rossiya Insurance Company, it had later been known as the Lubyanka, a fearsome word even in the fearsome land ruled by Iosef Vissarionovich Stalin, with its basement full of cells and interrogation rooms.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

In 1972 Mitrokhin was given the job of packing up First Chief Directorate files in the KGB's Moscow headquarters, a massive turn-of-the-century building called the Lubyanka, and shipping them to the KGB's new quarters in Yasenevo.

The Plot Thickens Powers, Thomas 2000

BROWN: Pushkin Square it's sort of equidistant between the Lubyanka, which is near the Kremlin, and his residence, which was at a place called Patriarch's Pond in Moscow.

Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century 1995

They won't know what to do, so they'll call the Lubyanka direct.

Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

The organisation's $606 million headquarters being built on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin - dubbed the Lubyanka on the Lake by Canberra wits - will house a new multi-agency counter-terrorism control centre.

The Age News Headlines 2010

Was Putin afraid to pick fights with the Lubyanka?

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The next year, he laid flowers at the grave of Yury Andropov, the longtime KGB head and Soviet leader, and mounted a plaque outside the Lubyanka to honor him.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

He got permission to install a twenty-person staff within the Lubyanka building as the kernel of a Russian KGB.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

When we reject someone or fail to extend a hand for fear that they might be a G2 mole, some obscure official in our native version of the KGB's Lubyanka wins a medal.

Yoani Sanchez: Eliecer Avila, Cuban Student Who Challenged the Regime, Returns to the Public Eye Yoani Sanchez 2011