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Stalinist
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The apartment
house at Кудринская Площадь
Built 1950-1954.
This nice house,
160 meters and 22 storeys high, with 452 apartments, has a
fine view over the south-western part of the city.
There are, as
usual, several handy shops in it (When opened, its
"Гастроном"
was the largest food store in Moscow), and there used to be
the 600-seat cinema
"Пламя"
('The flame'), although it doesn't
seem to be working anymore nowadays.
It is also
very close to the Zoo, where you can visit two wart hog
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The apartment
house on Котельническая набережная
Built in 1948-1952,
it dominates its part of the Moscow river.
The building is,
like many other high Moscow buildings, also used for wat
ching
the weather, in particular the direction and speed
of the
wind. |
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Some of the
instruments used for this can
be
seen on the spire on the right.
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The combined
administrative and
apartment house at Площадь Красных ворот
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It was built in 1948-1953, imitating the style of Russian and
Ukrainian baroque.
The central part
is the ministry of transport machine building, which is
flanked by two apartment house wings (and, to top it off, the
left wing incorporates the metro station "Красные ворота"). In
the building, among many stores and other nice things, the
Russian union of railway and transport builders is likewise
housed.
In this place, the
house where Lermontov was born used to
stand. | |
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Written by Tinet Elmgren
in 2002.
All pics at which there is no particular indication about
where I might have stolen them from, are taken by yours
truly. |
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