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Kudrinskaya Square Building

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Completed
  
1954

Floor count
  
22

Opened
  
1954

Construction started
  
1950

Roof
  
160 m (520 ft)

Height
  
160 m

Floors
  
22

Architect
  
Mikhail Posokhin

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Location
  
1 Kudrinskaya street, Presnensky District, Moscow, Russia

Similar
  
Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya, Red Gate Building, Hilton Moscow Leningra, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of, Red Gate

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The Kudrinskaya Square Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers, designed by Mikhail Posokhin and Ashot Mndoyants.

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Map of Zhiloy dom na Kudrinskoy ploshchadi, Moskva, Russia, 123242

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Features

The skyscraper has 22 levels in its central part and is 160 metres (520 ft) tall. It is topped by a 30-metre spire which ends with a five-pointed star. Lateral towers are lower than the central one.

History

The skyscraper was laid down in 1950 and completed in 1954. It was the last of the Seven Sisters to be completed.

Its apartments were originally intended for the political elite of the former USSR; they are currently inhabited by wealthy and stylish Russians.

Other projects

Media related to Kudrinskaya Square Building at Wikimedia Commons

References

Kudrinskaya Square Building Wikipedia