Editing Lubyanka Square (section)

== Square center ==
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 [[Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow|statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky]] ("Iron Felix"), founder of the Cheka, made by [[Yevgeny Vuchetich]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=RIR|last2=Romendik|first2=Dmitriy|date=2014-02-11|title=The dark history of Lubyanka|url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/02/11/the_dark_history_of_lubyanka_32985|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.rbth.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2014, [[Jacques von Polier]] designed the [[Raketa]] Monumental which is largest watch mechanism in the world. It is currently installed at the square.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150721124726/http://en.hals-development.ru/news/2014/07/22/worlds-biggest-clock-to-be-installed-in-centralny-, https://www.buro247.com/me/lifestyle/news/moscow-giant-clockwork-raketa.html, http://www.njt.ru/en/news/19129/ </ref>

On October 30, 1990, the [[Memorial (society)|Memorial]] organization erected the [[Solovetsky Stone]], a monument to the victims of the [[Gulag]], a simple stone from the [[Solovki prison camp]] in the [[White Sea]]. In 1991 the statue of Dzerzhinsky was removed by liberal protesters following the failure of the [[1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt|coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev]], and the square's original name was officially restored.