Bogoyavlensky pereulok, 2 строение 1 (Moscow)

 office building, ministry / government department, Stalinist (architecture), 1950s construction, intelligence agency

Prior to the 1920s the building on this site was part of the Bogoyavlensky Monastery. In 1940 this four-story building was constructed for the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD). The main function of the NKVD was to protect the state security of the Soviet Union. This function was successfully accomplished through massive political repression, including the use of sanctioned political murders and assassinations.

In 1941 a German bomb was dropped near here destroying three story building.

Today this building is part of the ФСО or Federal Protective Service, a government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of several, mandated by the relevant law, high-ranking state officials, including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties.