Stalinist Skyscrapers

   


Moscow State University. My home is my castle ...

     

One of the strongest reasons for why I like Moscow more than Petersburg - the latter is the city most other people, for some reason, tend to prefer when choosing between the two of them - is that they don't have any Stalinist skyscrapers in Petersburg! (Other reasons include the climate, the size, Moscow's being 'more properly Russian', the Lenin mausoleum, вднх, more marble and steelen stars in the metro stations, not quite as much remainders of silly tsars, the longer distance to horrid places like Finland, and so on ...)

On the other hand, I've so far spent four whole months in Moscow, 
and only four days in Petersburg, so maybe that could  
be a further explanation ...

   

There are seven Stalinist skyscrapers. Only six of them were actually built - the most exciting one was to remain but a dream ...

    

        

  

Links to more about Stalin's skyscrapers:

(Where some of the information here has found inspiration)


A fine Russian page with very much information indeed.
Here you can also read about the legendary "eighth scraper", which didn't even 
make it to become an outdoors swimming pool ... (Russian & English)

http://moscow.co.ru/
Moscow in photographs. You can take virtual well-guided walks on central streets, and they also have a special section of the skyscrapers. (Russian text, but the photographs are, naturally, just as understandable for non-Russian speakers ...)

Some stuff on Russopath Dave's Russia pages

The official MSU homepage
Has a visual tour of the MSU building, with excellent photographs picturing the building from every imaginable angle ... No pictures from the inside, though. (That's something that's very hard to come by, it seems.)

http://msu.mnc.ru/
The most beautiful photographs of Moscow State University - ever.

Skyscrapers.com
The Moscow section.

An informative summary of professor Sona Hoisington's
"Ever Higher: the Evolution of the Project for
the Palace of the Soviets"

  

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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.