NKVD buildings

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NKVD buildings in former Soviet Union - during the first years of the Soviet Union the NKVD took over a number of existing buildings, many building were also constructed for offices and investigation/torture chambers and internal prisons.

Contents 1 Russia 1.1 Moscow 1.2 Sankt Petersburg 1.3 Vladivostok 2 Kiyv, Ukraine 3 Minsk, Belarus 4 Baku, Azerbaijan

[edit] Russia

[edit] Moscow

• Lubyanka (KGB), formerly All-Russia Insurance Company, rebuild 1940 and 1983

[edit] Sankt Petersburg

• Bolshoi Dom at Liteynyi Prospect [1]

[edit] Vladivostok

• Far Eastern National University Main Building, NKVD 1939-1956 [2]

[edit] Kiyv, Ukraine

• now the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine [3]
• October Palace of Culture, oryginally a "Seminary for Young ladies"

[edit] Minsk, Belarus

• now KGB building, constructed after the war, see [4]

[edit] Baku, Azerbaijan

• now the the State Frontier Service[5]