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Roof. 160 m (520 ft) Technical details. Floor count. 22. Design and construction. Architect (s) Mikhail Posokhin, Ashot Mndoyants. The Kudrinskaya Square Building is a building in Moscow, one of Seven Sisters Of Moscow Stalinist skyscrapers, designed by Mikhail Posokhin ( Russian: Михаил Посохин) [1] and Ashot Mndoyants (Russian ...
Ashot Mndoyants is a Russian architect, well known for his design of the Kudrinskaya Square, one of the Stalinist towers, named the Seven Sisters in Moscow. Mndoyants designed together with Mikhail V. Posokhin.
- Moscow State University, Sparrow Hills
- Hotel Ukraina– Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel
- Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
- Kudrinskaya Square Building
- Red Gates Administrative Building
When the Moscow State University skyscraper was finished, it became the crown of the whole project. It was the highest and most beautiful building among the “sisters.” Although Boris Iofan was the main architect responsible for the skyscraper, he made a mistake in the placement of the building. There was a risk of landslide on the location that he ...
This skyscraper, formerly known only as “Ukraina,” was created by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky. It was the second tallest “sister” (198 meters and 34 floors). “Ukraina” also held the title of the tallest hotel in the world, but it got beaten in 1975 by the Peachtree Plaza Hotel constructed in Atlanta, Georgia. After a major renovati...
The current Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation building is also one of the “seven sisters.” The skyscraper construction was overseen by V.G.Gelfreih and A.B.Minkus. It was built between 1946 and 1953, and it is 172 high, with 27 functional floors. Out of the two designs which were proposed, the more streamlined one was selected....
In the past, it was known as the “Leningradskaya Hotel,” and it was created by Leonid Polyakov. This skyscraper that stands on Komsomolskaya Square is relatively shorter than the other “Sisters” which it is 136 meters high, and has 26 floors, of which only 19 are usable. The interior of the building vas very inefficiently planned. A document from 1...
The “Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building” is 176 meters high, and it has 22 usable floors. It is built at the point where the Moskva River and Yauza River meet. Initially, it was planned that this skyscraper would serve as an elite housing building, but after it was erected, it ended up as a multi-family communal apartments building, known as “komm...
Mikhail Posokhin (Sr.) and Ashot Mndoyants designed this 160 meters tall building of 22 floors, at the end of Krasnaya Presnya street to serve as an apartment complex for Soviet cultural leaders and politicians. Today, the apartments are inhabited by wealthy Russian citizens.
“The Red Gates Administrative Building, designed by Alexey Dushkin,” is the shortest of the “Seven Sisters.” This 133 meters high skyscraper has 24 levels, and it once housed the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry and the Ministry of Transport Construction. Now it is building with several purposes. “The Red Gates” building is also known as ...
Mikhail V. Posokhin. 1 of 1. Mikhail Vasilevich Posokhin (November 30th (Dec. 13th), 1910 - January 22nd 1989) was a Soviet architect. He was People's Architect of the USSR in 1970 and member of the CPSU since 1961. Posokhin studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture from 1935 to 1938.
- Red Gates Administrative Building. The designer of The Red Gate Administrative Building was Alexey Mishkin, from the Moscow Metro frame. Its construction began in 1947 and ended in 1953.
- Moscow State University. The main building of Moscow State University was inaugurated on September 1, 1953. It was the tallest skyscraper in all of Europe until 1990.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The construction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building took place between 1948 and 1953. The designers of this structure were V.G.Gelfreih and A.B.
- Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel. This hotel is 136 meters high and is relatively small compared to the rest of the Seven Sisters of Moscow. It was constructed by Leonid Polyakov and is decorated on the interior with unique Russian ornaments.
Jan 4, 2022 · Novy Arbat (Kalinin Prospekt, 1968) by Mikhail Posokhin, the chief architect of Moscow for 22 years, was designed together with Ashot Mndoyants and Boris Tkhor as a mixed-use urban renewal complex on both sides of a major thoroughfare with four open-book shaped office buildings coming out of a common commercial podium along one side and five ...
Russian architect. He worked with Shchusev in the 1930s before establishing a partnership with Ashot Mndoyants (1909–66). Projects included the Moscow Council Building (1943–5) and the offices in Znamenka Street, Moscow (1943–5—a heavy Neo-Classical composition).
