[[Image:lubyanka_1916.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stalin ordered all the historic Lubyanka churches to be demolished in order to make way for the KGB headquarters]] Lubyanka Square in Moscow is not far from Red Square. The name is first mentioned in 1480, when Ivan III settled many Novgorodians in the area. They built the church of St Sophia, modelled after St Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, and called the area ''Lubyanka'' after Lubyanitsy district of their native city. Lubyanka Square is best known for the large yellow brick building which was the Lubyanka (KGB) of the KGB in its various incarnations. The square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square for many years, in honor of the founder of the Soviet security service, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed ''Iron Felix.'' A monumental statue of Dzerzhinsky was erected in the center of the square. On October 30, 1990, the organization Memorial (society) erected a monument to the victims of the Gulag, a simple stone from Solovki. In 1991 the statue of Dzerzhinsky was removed, following the failure of the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, and the square's original name was officially restored. Moscow Soviet political repressions
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[[Image:lubyanka_1916.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stalin ordered all the historic Lubyanka churches to be demolished in order to make way for the KGB headquarters]] Lubyanka Square in Moscow is not far from Red Square. The name is first mentioned in 1480, when Ivan III settled many Novgorodians in the area. They built the church of St Sophia, modelled after St Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, and called the area ''Lubyanka'' after Lubyanitsy district of their native city. Lubyanka Square is best known for the large yellow brick building which was the Lubyanka (KGB) of the KGB in its various incarnations. The square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square for many years, in honor of the founder of the Soviet security service, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed ''Iron Felix.'' A monumental statue of Dzerzhinsky was erected in the center of the square. On October 30, 1990, the organization Memorial (society) erected a monument to the victims of the Gulag, a simple stone from Solovki. In 1991 the statue of Dzerzhinsky was removed, following the failure of the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, and the square's original name was officially restored. Moscow Soviet political repressions
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