Lubyanka
[ loo-byahng-kuh ]
noun
a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
Origin of Lubyanka
1From the Russian word Lyubyánʾka, named after the adjacent street and square, now Dzerzhinsky Street and Square
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How to use Lubyanka in a sentence
We watch Babel beaten, just before his death, in “Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940.”
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