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{{Short description|Headquarters of the FSB in Moscow, Russia}} {{Multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=January 2014}} {{Expand Russian|topic=struct|date=November 2017}} }} {{Infobox building | name = Lubyanka | image = Lubyanka Building.jpg | native_name = Лубянка | location_town = [[Moscow]] | location_country = Russia | completion_date = 1898 | current_tenants = [[Federal Security Service|FSB]] | architectural_style = [[Baroque Revival architecture|Neo-Baroque]] | architect = Alexander V. Ivanov |embedded = {{Infobox mapframe|wikidata=yes|zoom=16|marker=prison|coord={{WikidataCoord|display=it}}}} }} '''Lubyanka''' ({{langx|ru|Лубянка}}, {{IPA|ru|lʊˈbʲankə|ipa}}) is the popular name for the building which contains the headquarters of the [[Federal Security Service|FSB]] on [[Lubyanka Square]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Подробная информация :: Федеральная Служба Безопасности |url=http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/webreception/more.htm |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=www.fsb.ru}}</ref> in the [[Meshchansky District]] of Moscow, Russia. It is a large [[Baroque Revival architecture|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 sickle]]s can still be seen on the building's facade.
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