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A fountain used to stand in front of the building, at the center of the Lubyanka Square. In 1958, the fountain at the center of the Lubyanka Square was replaced by an 11-ton
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The square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square for many years (1926–1990) in honor of the founder of the Soviet security service
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in 1471, settled many Novgorodians in the area. They built the church of St Sophia, modelled after
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and constructed from 1897 to 1898. Originally built for the insurance company
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FSB headquarters
Central Children's Store
Russian
Moscow
Central Administrative Okrug
Tverskoy District
#1 Sokolnicheskaya line
Lubyanka
55°45′34″N 37°37′37″E / 55.75944°N 37.62694°E / 55.75944; 37.62694
Russian
Moscow
Red Square
Ivan III
Novgorod
St Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
Felix Dzerzhinsky
statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky
Yevgeny Vuchetich
Memorial
Solovetsky Stone
Gulag
Solovki prison camp
White Sea
coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev
Lubyanka Building
Aleksandr V. Ivanov
ru
headquarters of the KGB
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

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