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Lubyanka district Lubyanka Square The fountain and its horses are a popular tourist attraction. Carlos Rodrigues

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  • Lubyanka Square

For many years, Lubyanka Square was sadly famous for the imposing building of the KGB and the statue of Dzerjinski, founder of the Cheka, the old form of the KGB. In the small garden by the side of the square, a discreet monument to the victims of totalitarianism was installed. Not far from it, in Lubyanski alley, stands the museum of the poet Maiakovsi. Opposite the KGB building stands, as if ironically, the city's largest toy shop, Dietski Mir. When going down Okhotny Ryad, you will walk past the great luxury hotel Metropol and land onto Theatre Square, where the famous Bolchoi stands imposingly. Behind the Bolchoi starts Petrovka street, one of the oldest in Moscow, which leads to Petrovsky monastery and Metropolitan Peter's church. Tverskaia street, one of Moscow's longest, has become a kind of Champs Elysées, lined with numerous 'chic' boutiques. It stretches from Manege Square and opens onto Pushkin Square and a little further still is Triumphal Square.

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