Headquarters of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (old building) (Moscow)

 headquarters, FSB of Russia, 1946_construction, 1933_construction, 1898_construction, constructivism (art), revealed object of cultural heritage (Russia)

Lubyanka square, Headquarters of Russian counter-intelligence, FSB (formerly the soviet KGB).

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Property of wealthy landowner, artist and collector Nikolai Semenovich Mosolov who sold it to the All Russia Insurance Company in 1894. The All Russia Insurance Company petitioned to build a 5 story residential apartment building. Before the construction started, the Insurance Company bought the adjacent property on Malaya Lubyanka Ulitsa. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Ivanov (1845-1917) along with Nikolai Mikhailovich Prokurnin (1863-1942) designed the two buildings, which were completed about 1900. The apartments rented for two to three times others of the same era producing a significant income for the insurance company.

In 1919 the space was taken over by the Dzerzhinsky and the CHEKA. In the 1920s the agency occupying the building expanded and the building needed to be enlarged. Between 1932 and 1934, Aleksei Shchusev added two floors to the building on the left when looking from Lubyanka Square. Also the architects Langmand and Bezrukov constructed a new building in Constructivist style facing Furkaskov Pereulok with rounded corners extending along Bolshaya and Malaya Lubyanka Streets.

By 1939 the need for space again resulted in plans to increase the size of the buildings facing Lubyanka Square. Instead of designing a completely new building, the architect Aleksei Shchusev had the idea to connect the two buildings facing Lubyanka Square, block access from Malaya Lubyanka to the square and add a new wing. Beria approved the plans and construction began, but was quickly interrupted in 1940 by World War II so that only the right side fronting was completed. Work began again in 1979 and Shchusev's plan was finally completed with a unified façade in 1983. Today the original two structures are connected on the first floor.