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Lubyanka, n.|lʊbˈjæŋkə, ˌluːbiˈæŋkə|
Also Lubianka.
[Place name.]
The name of a street in Moscow used attrib. and absol. to denote the headquarters of the Soviet secret police formerly sited there, and the detention centre for political dissidents within it. Also transf.
1938E. Ambler Cause for Alarm xiv. 221 When I thought of Russia I thought..of the Lubianka prison. 1963Listener 24 Jan. 181/3 The Lubianka seemed to cast no more shadow over them all..than the Tower of London does over us. 1967Stevenson & Hayward tr. Ginzburg's 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 (1984) 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. 1990F. Kanga Trying to Grow vii. 62 The Parsee old people's home being a cross between a loony house and the Lubyanka. 1991Climber & 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. |