Despite other cities, notably Moscow, removing their statues of the leader of the feared Cheka secret police organisation, Oryol still has its. The statue depicts Feliks Dzershinsky sat comfortably in a chair outside the Oryol headquarters of the FSB, the Cheka's modern day successor. Dzerzhinsky has a link with Oryol as he was an inmate at Oryol Central Prison from 1915 to 1916.