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Mosselprom Building

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Country
  
Russia

Client
  
City of Moscow

Town or city
  
Moscow

Architect
  
Nikolay Strukov

Completed
  
1925

Opened
  
1925

Construction started
  
1912

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Address
  
2/10 Kalashny Side street

Architectural styles
  
Avant-garde, Constructivist architecture

Similar
  
Narkomfin building, Shukhov Tower, Melnikov House, Borodinsky Bridge, Rusakov Workers' Club

The Mosselprom building (Russian: Дом Моссельпрома) is a monument to Russian constructivism and avantgarde architecture. It is located in the centre of Moscow on an intersection between Kalashny, Nizhny Kislovksy and Maly Kislovky side streets. It was designed by architect N. D. Strukov and is notable for its painted panels by the artists Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova.

Map of Mosselprom Building, Moskva, Russia, 125009

The building was originally intended as a seven-story apartment house with restaurant, built in 1912-13 by Strukov; however, it was hastily constructed and collapsed on March 22, 1913. A part of the structure was rebuilt by 1917; in 1923-1925 two more floors were added for storage and offices for Mosselprom, the Moscow Rural Cooperative Administration (Russian: Московское управление сельской промысловой кооперации), which combined flour, confectionery, and chocolate factories, breweries, and tobacco companies.

In the 1930s it reverted to an apartment building; the linguist Viktor Vinogradov lived there from 1964 to 1969. It was restored in 1997, and it currently houses a branch of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.

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Mosselprom Building Wikipedia