Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow

Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow
	The monument in 1991 in its original location in front of the Lubyanka Building
	55°44′07″N 37°36′32″E / 55.73528°N 37.60889°E
Location	Muzeon Park of Arts, Moscow
Designer	Grigory Zakharov [ru]
Material	Granite (statue); Steel (pedestal);
Opening date	20 December 1958 (Dzerzhinsky Square); 1992 (Muzeon Park of Arts);
Dedicated to	Felix Dzerzhinsky
Dismantled date	22 August 1991 (KGB location)

The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (‹See Tfd›Russian: Памятник Дзержинскому, romanized: Pamyatnik Dzerzhinskomu), also known by the nickname Iron Felix (‹See Tfd›Russian: Железный Феликс, romanized: Zheleznyy Feliks), commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU. The monument, designed by Grigory Zakharov [ru] and incorporating a statue of Dzerzhinsky sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich, was erected on Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow in 1958, next to the Lubyanka Building.