1. Imprisonment at Lubyanka

    · Lubyanka Building, Moscow, Russia

    Imprisonment at Lubyanka
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    Landau was arrested amid the Great Purge and was imprisoned in the NKVD's Lubyanka prison until his release in April 1939. The quoted sentence establishes confinement through 29 April 1939; the article states immediately before it that his arrest occurred on 27 April 1938.

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