Solovki prison camp
On 30 October 1990 a plain boulder from the Solovki prison camp on the White Sea, was erected in front of the Polytechnical Museum on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. This placed it in close proximity to the headquarters of the KGB and its Soviet predecessors since 1918, and of the present Federal Security Service (or FSB). The base of the monument reads: "To the Victims of Political Repression". Its appearance resolved a long and inconclusive public discussion about the form that such a monument should take.