The Lubyanka, aka 'Moscow Centre', traditionally the HQ of the Soviet and Russian internal state security service.

My images taken May 2016.

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Suspects being unloaded from a truck in a courtyard in the Lubyanka Building for interrogation by OGPU officers. Moscow. USSR. 1928.

OGPU = the Joint State Political Directorate, aka the Peoples State Security Service.

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November 6, 1931 - in Moscow, a delegation from Lugansk presented to the government the first steam locomotive of the "Felix Dzerzhinsky" series.

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5 November 1925: British agent Sidney Reilly, was executed by the #OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. #History

In the reading room of the party office of the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy. Moskvoretskaya Embankment. Moscow. USSR, November 1940.

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OGPU / NKVD officers at a Correctional Labour Camp, probably one which was linked to the construction of the great White Sea - Baltic Canal. USSR. 1932.

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Felix Dzerzhinsky ("Iron Felix") was born 11 September 1877 (new calendar).

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Book. There is no honor higher... Yaroslavl. Upper Volga Book Publishing House. 1987, 20th century.
Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Cheka - OGPU - KGB.
Circulation: 75,000 copies.
Reference: articles, essays, sketches about the Chekists.
Price: 1200 rubles.
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