Building of the Ministry for Internal Affairs – a House Surrounded by Legends
A monumental pale-blue building at Komsomolskaya Square is the Directorate of the Ministry for Internal Affairs in Perm Krai. It was built in 1952 in the Stalinist Empire style, popular at that time. The majestic building with a high staged tower, high ceilings and pompous decorations is surrounded by grim legends.
It is known that there was a ballistic laboratory on the first floor of the Directorate of the Ministry for Internal Affairs in Perm Krai, where the staff made an expert examination of the weapon seized from criminals. Shots could be heard from there and the citizens, passing by, flurried by the era of de-Stalinization and loud denunciations, pictured to themselves the terrible scenes of executions. The building was named the "Tower of Death". It was whispered that there were several underground passages under the house, the two gloomiest of which connected the "Tower of Death", the prison and the Yegoshikha Cemetery. In fact, this house has always been a common municipal institution. However, rumors assume bizarre forms sometimes: at the late 90-s, a local writer Alexander Subbotin created an anti-utopia about the "Tower of Death" in the manner of the "Tower of Babel" by Franz Kafka.
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