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Lubyanka Square ((ロシア語:Лубянская площадь), Lubyanskaya ploshchad’) in Moscow is about north east of Red Square. The name is first mentioned in 1480, when Ivan III settled many Novgorodians in the area. They built the church of St Sophia, modelled after St Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, and called the area ''Lubyanka'' after the Lubyanitsy district of their native city. Lubyanka Square is best known for Aleksandr V. Ivanov's monumental building from 1897 to 1898. It was originally used by the insurance company ''Rossiya'', but it is better known for later housing the headquarters of the KGB in its various incarnations and today housing that of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). The square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square for many years (1926–1990) in honor of the founder of the Soviet security service, Felix Dzerzhinsky. Yevgeny Vuchetich's monumental statue of Dzerzhinsky (nicknamed ''Iron Felix'') was erected in the center of the square in 1958. Opposite of the FSB building is the massive Detsky Mir (Russian: ''Де́тский мир''; Children World), Europe's largest children's store. It was built between 1953 and 1957 and fully restored in 2014. It also hosts in its main atrium the world's largest mechanical clock movement: Raketa Monumental.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Do not advertise a past dark with pain )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Механические часы В ЦДМ на Лубянке производства ПЧЗ “Ракета" - Русские часы: Ракета / Russian Watches: Raketa )〕 On October 30, 1990, the Memorial organization erected a monument to the victims of the Gulag, a simple stone from the Solovki prison camp. In 1991 the statue of Dzerzhinsky was removed following the failure of the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, and the square's original name was officially restored. The Moscow Metro station Lubyanka is located under Lubyanka Square. Image:KGB-Lubyanka-1983.jpg|KGB building in 1983 Image:Loubianka square memorial.jpg|The new monument ("Solovki stone") Image:Lubyanka CDM view from Panoramic view point 05-2015 img01.jpg|A less common view ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lubyanka Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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