The Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style, also known as Stalinist "Empire style". They were built from 1947 to 1957. At the time of construction, th
The main building of Moscow State University, one of the Seven Sisters
Moscow skyscrapers plan 1 — Moscow State University 2 — Hotel Ukraina 3 — Kudrinskaya Square Building 4 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5 — Palace of the Soviets (never built) 6 — Zaryadye Administrative Building (never built) 7 — Leningradskaya Hotel 8 — Red Gates Administrative Building 9 — Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
Miniature sheet of the First Congress of Soviet Architects showing the Palace of the Soviets, 1937.
The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya is one of Moscow's Seven Sisters, skyscrapers built in the early 1950s in the Stalinist neoclassical style. Stalinist neoclassical architecture mixes the Russian neocl
Seven Sisters (Moscow)
…the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The seven are: Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel, the main building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main building of Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building. There…
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Komsomolskaya Square, view from the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya
The facade of the hotel (2015)
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