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Wednesday, 25.07.2007
The KGB Museum – a house with strange charm
If you appreciate the macabre, you will not be able to resist visiting the KGB museum. The Lubyanka, in the cellars of which hundreds of thousands were interrogated and tortured, came to epitomise Stalinist terror. Those who survived the torture, fell victim to the firing squads or landed in the GuLAG.
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But the museum stays silent about these facts. Instead it displays curiosities from the 50-year long spy war between the USA and Soviet Union.
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Lubjyanskaya Ploshad 2
Nearest metro station: Lubyanka
Telephone: 914 85 38
Opening hours: weekdays from 10am to 6pm, appointment needed.
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Here you can wonder at cameras fitted in lighters, or bombs in cans of coke. Of course, the most important espionage technology is also featured: bugging devices. All shapes and sizes are on display. Not only Russian models, but also ‘captured’ American devices. These include an American probe for tapping satellite communication.
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The museum was founded in 1984 for internal use on the orders of then Party chief Yurii Andropov. Visit the museum yourself to investigate the secrets of the Secret Service.
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