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 by globetrott
Make sure you get close to the building in order to see the special detaily of architecture :
Gigantic doors and giant decorations in "communiste style" like lions or working people made of concrete... Leave a Comment Directions: I saw the building on my picture at the end of old Arbat street, while walking towards the "White house"
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 Vysotki by ValbyDK
The skyscrapers were built in the 1940s and 1950s (the last 10 years of Stalin's rule), and the style is combined from baroque Kremlin towers, gothic cathedrals and American skyscrapers of the 1930s.
Today the buildings are used as apartment buildings (Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya and Kudrinskaya Square), hotels (Hotel Ukraina and Hotel Leningrad, government buildings (The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Ministry of Heavy Industry) and the Moscow State University.
The buildings look very impressive.
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 by Sharrie
We also have "wedding-cake" architecture here :-)
Commonly known as that "wedding-cake" style, the Stalinist Gothic style of architecture can be found at key areas in Moscow. There are about 7 of them & I think I saw 3.
Some of the most distinctive are those of the Foreign Ministry, the Moscow University & Hotel Ukraine. Leave a Comment
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 by barcodex
This is a building of Ministry of Internal Affairs, that I told about earlier on the page. As you can see, it is very similar to Moscow State University's main building indeed. Leave a Comment
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 What the hell is that? by american_tourister
The statue was built as a representation of Christopher Columbus and was offered to the USA by the communist government (CCCP) to commemorate the anniversary of Columbus "discovering" America.
The Americans politely turned them down as the Russians would have expected this monstrosity to be erected ala' the Statue of Liberty.
The Russians were incensed by the snub. The cut the head of Columbus off the statue and placed the head of Peter the Great instead. It was then erected on the banks of the Moskva river where it is now.
It now commemorates the explorations sanctioned by Peter the Great. Now I'm not sure if this is all true but it would explain everything except tha fact that this thing is really horrible. Leave a Comment Directions: Banks of the Moscow River between the Kremlin and Gorky Park.
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