Minsk Sights

KGB Building

#11 of 83 things to do in Minsk

#6057 of 49054 things to do in Europe

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  • Address
    • pr Francyska Skaryny 17 City Centre
  • Transport
    • Ploshcha Nezalezhnastsi

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Lonely Planet review for KGB Building

This yellow neoclassical building occupies an entire block and its ominous, temple-like Corinthian portal looks down over Independence Square (ploshcha Nezalezhnastsi). On the opposite side of the street is a long, narrow park with a bust of terror-monger Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB's predecessor, the Cheka.

The downing of his statue in Moscow was one of the defining moments of the breakup of the USSR in 1991; this is one of the world's last remaining statues to the person responsible for much bloodshed.

 

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