NKVD buildings

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.

Russia

Moscow

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

Saint Petersburg

Bolshoi Dom at Liteynyi Prospect

Vladivostok

Far Eastern National University Main Building, NKVD 1939-1956

Kyiv, Ukraine

now the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
October Palace of Culture, originally a "Seminary for Young ladies"

Minsk, Belarus

now KGB building, constructed after the war, see

Baku, Azerbaijan

now the State Frontier Service

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