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The end of the 1920s. The NEP was curtailed, the first five-year plan began, and Komsomol members rushed to work on shock construction projects. Grandiose construction began under the walls of the Kremlin, on Vsekhsvyatskaya Street (now Serafimovich Street): it was decided to build a government house near the weed-covered Bersenevskaya Embankment of the Moscow River. No one could have imagined that it would soon be called DOPR - a house of preliminary detention, that many of its residents would be shot, and that the words "House on the Embankment" would sound mysterious and scary for a long time...