Bolshaya Lubyanka Street is a radial street in Moscow's Central Administrative Okrug. KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB) ( Russian: ФСБ Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Federalnaya A street is a Public thoroughfare in the built environment It is a Public parcel of land adjoining Buildings in an urban context Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Central Administrative District, or Tsentralny Administrative Okrug (Центральный административный округ is an administrative okrug The street runs north-east from Lubyanka Square to Sretenka Gates Square on the Boulevard Ring. Lubyanka Square (Лубянская площадь in Moscow is not far from Red Square. The Boulevard Ring (Бульва́рное кольцо́ is Moscow 's centremost Ring road. The path of Bolshaya Lubyanka is continued by Sretenka Street (to Garden Ring), Prospekt Mira and Yaroslavskoye Schosse. The Garden Ring, also known as the "B" Ring (Садо́вое кольцо́ кольцо́ "Б" is a Circular Avenue around
The street serves as the boundary between Meshchansky District (west from Bolshaya Lubyanka) and Krasnoselsky District (east). Etymology Meshchane (plural мещане in Imperial Russia denoted a social estate of poor town residents who did not qualify as merchants History Krasnoye Selo (ru Красное Село lit beautiful village) that gave it name to the district and Krasnoselskaya Street existed since Middle