Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow
Yakimanka District, Russia · built 1958
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (Pamyatnik Dzerzhinskomu), also known by the nickname Iron Felix (Zheleznyy Feliks), commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU. The monument, designed by Grigory Zakharov and incorporating a statue of Dzerzhinsky sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich, was erected on Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow in 1958, next to the Lubyanka Building.
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