Lubyankan.
/lʊbˈjaŋkə//ˌluːbiˈaŋkə/ The name of a street in Moscow used attributively and absol. to denote the headquarters of the Soviet secret police formerly sited there, and the detention centre for political dissidents within it. Also transferred.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [adjective] > specific secret police headquarters
Lubyanka1938
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [adjective] > in or belonging to specific prisons > specific Soviet
Lubyanka1938
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > Soviet or U.S.S.R.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service or police > specific secret police headquarters
Lubyanka1963
1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm xiv. 221 When I thought of Russia I thought..of the Lubianka prison.
1963 Listener 24 Jan. 181/3 The Lubianka seemed to cast no more shadow over them all..than the Tower of London does over us.
1967 Stevenson & Hayward tr. Ginzburg Journey into Whirlwind i. xxv. 142 The drive was a long one. That meant we were going to the Butyrki prison: the Lubyanka was only a short way from the Kazan station.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl ii. 44 His greatest feat had been performed in the Lubyanka, where he had faked documents for fellow inmates from back numbers of Pravda, repulping them to press his own paper.
1990 F. Kanga Trying to Grow vii. 62 The Parsee old people's home being a cross between a loony house and the Lubyanka.
1991 Climber & Hill Walker Nov. 38/1 I met him first in the Lubyanka, that brick lump on Manchester's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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