Lubyanka

Lubyanka is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, located under . The facility, originally called Dzerzhinskaya station, opened in 1935 as part of the first stage of the metro.
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  • Opening hours: 5:30 AM—1:00 AM
  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Moscow Metro station
  • Also known as: “Dzerzhinskaya” and “Ploshchad Dzerzhinskogo”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bolshoi Theatre and Lubyanka Square.

Theater building
Photo: Юрий Д.К., CC BY 4.0.
The is a historic opera house in , , originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg. is situated 580 metres west of Lubyanka.

Square
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Lubyanskaya Square, or simply Lubyanka in lies about 900 metres north-east of . History first records its name in 1480, when Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow, who had conquered Novgorod in 1471, settled many Novgorodians in the area.

Memorial
Photo: Alexei Kouprianov, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is a monument on in to the victims of political repression. It is in close proximity to the Lubyanka Building, headquarters since 1918 of various Russian security services, from the Cheka to today's FSB.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kitay-gorod and Central-North.

Neighborhood
Photo: Matthäus Merian the Elder, Public domain.
, also referred to as the Great Possad in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a cultural and historical area within the central part of Moscow in Russia, defined by the remnants of now almost entirely razed fortifications, narrow streets and very densely built cityscape.

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Moscow is the part of that's north of the Kremlin, east of Tverskaya Street, north of Pokrova Street, the area within the Boulevard Ring, Krasnoselsky south, Meshchansky south & Tverskoy South raions…

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Moscow is in also part of Central Moscow.

Lubyanka

Latitude
55.75987° or 55° 45′ 36″ north
Longitude
37.62786° or 37° 37′ 40″ east
Inception
May 15th, 1935
Operator
ГУП «Московский метрополитен»
Network
Московский метрополитен
Open location code
9G7VQJ5H+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267335316
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q677658
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Urdu—“Lubyanka” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Лубянка”
  • Chinese: “盧比揚卡站”
  • Czech: “Lubjanka”
  • Dutch: “Loebjanka”
  • Esperanto: “Lubjanka”
  • Finnish: “Lubjankan metroasema”
  • French: “Loubianka”
  • Georgian: “ლუბიანკა”
  • German: “Lubjanka”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת לוביאנקה”
  • Hungarian: “Lubjanka metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Lubjanka”
  • Indonesian: “Lubyanka”
  • Italian: “Lubjanka”
  • Japanese: “ルビャンカ駅”
  • Kirghiz: “Лубянка”
  • Korean: “루뱐카역”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lubjanka”
  • Norwegian: “Lubjanka”
  • Polish: “Łubianka”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Lubianka”
  • Portuguese: “Lubianka”
  • Russian: “Дзержинская”
  • Russian: “Лубянка”
  • Russian: “Лубя́нка”
  • Russian: “Площадь Дзержинского”
  • Slovenian: “Džeržinskaja”
  • Slovenian: “Lubjanka”
  • Slovenian: “Ploščad Džeržinskogo”
  • Swedish: “Lubjanka”
  • Tatar: “Лубянка (метро станциясе)”
  • Tatar: “Лубянка”
  • Ukrainian: “Луб’янка”
  • Urdu: “لوبیانکا (ماسکو میٹرو)”
  • Urdu: “لوبیانکا”

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