The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is one of the seven “Stalin skyscrapers” built in Moscow. Architects Professor V. G. Gelfreikh and M. A. Minkus built the skyscraper (Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square, 32/34) from 1948-1953. The central volume includes…

Between 1948 and 1954 architects M. V. Posokhin, A. A. Mndoyants and designer M N. Vokhomsky built the house on Kudrinskaya Square (it was called “Vysotka on Vosstaniya Square” since Kudrinskaya Square was called Vosstaniya Square from 1925 to 1992). One…

  Morozov’s mansion (now the House of Receptions of the Government of the Russian Federation; from 1959 until the end of the 1990s – the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries) – a mansion in the center of Moscow, on Vozdvizhenka Street…

Widow’s House is a state charitable institution, opened in Moscow (near the Garden Ring) in 1803. The building of the Widow’s House was designed in 1775 by the architect Ivan Gilardi. The widow’s house was opened in 1803 to house widows whose husbands had…

The Embassy of the United States in the Russian Federation is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Russian Federation – Russia, located in Moscow on Novinsky Boulevard (Garden Ring). Initially, the Soviet leadership promised the American…

The Obolensky House on Novinsky Boulevard (Garden Ring) is a historic building in Moscow built in the second half of the 18th century. An object of cultural heritage of federal significance. Located on Novinsky Boulevard (Garden Ring), building 11a. The exact…

The Razumovsky-Sheremetev House (Sheremetev’s Coal House) is a classicist mansion that forms the corner of the Sheremetev Courtyard at the intersection of Vozdvizhenka and Romanov Lane in Moscow. In the 18th century, the site adjacent to Vozdvizhenka from…

The Russian State Library (FGBU RSL) is the national library of the Russian Federation, the largest public library in Russia and continental Europe and one of the largest libraries in the world, located in Moscow; a leading research institution in the field…

The Moscow Manege (Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Russian: Maнеж)) is a historic building located at Manezhnaya Square, 1, between Manezhnaya and Sapozhkova Squares, Aleksandrovsky Garden and Mokhovaya Street in Moscow. The main exhibition area of the State…

House of the Unions (House of the Noble Assembly) – a public building on the corner of Okhotny Ryad and Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow; a monument of classicism of the late 18th century. Initially – the estate of Prince Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky. It was bought…

The building of the Council of Labor and Defense (Gosplan building, State Duma building) is a building in Moscow at Okhotny Ryad Street, 1. It currently houses the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Identified object of cultural heritage. In its current…

The building of state security bodies is a building on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, which served as the main building of the state security bodies of the USSR from 1919 to 1992. As of 2022, the building is part of the complex of buildings of the Federal…

The complex of buildings of the insurance company “Russia” – two buildings of tenement houses built in Moscow in 1899-1902 for the insurance company “Russia” according to the project of architect N. M. Proskurnin. Located at the address: Sretensky Boulevard…

The building of the Lukoil oil company is a skyscraper on the corner of Sretensky Boulevard and Akademik Sakharov Avenue and one of the most controversial buildings in Moscow in terms of architectural design. Initially, the administrative building under construction…

The Tsentrosoyuz Building (also known as the Building of the People’s Commissariat for Light Industry, the Building of the CSU) is an office building on Myasnitskaya Street in Moscow. It was built in 1928-1936 in the international style according to the project…

The administrative and residential building on Lermontovskaya Square (Red Gate Building) is one of the seven completed Stalinist skyscrapers. It was built in Moscow in 1947-1953 according to the project of architects Alexei Dushkin and Boris Mezentsev and…

The A. S. Pushkin Library (since 2014 – the A. S. Pushkin Library-Reading Room) is a city library of Moscow. It is located in the former estate of the Mukhins, built at the beginning of the 19th century. The Library was founded by the decision of the Moscow…

The Zholtovsky House on Mokhovaya street is a building in the center of Moscow. The house was built in 1934 according to the project of the architect Ivan Zholtovsky for the employees of the Moscow City Council. The construction of the building caused conflicting…

The Episcopal (Faceted) Chamber is an architectural monument in the Moscow Kremlin ensemble, one of the oldest civil buildings in Moscow. It was built in 1487-1491 by the decree of Ivan III and Italian architects Mark Fryazin and Pietro Antonio Solari designed…

The House of the Provincial Government is building government offices in the northeast of Red Square in Moscow. From Catherine’s time to the administrative reforms of Alexander II, the Moscow province’s six-voice Duma, and provincial institutions were located…

The Spasskaya Tower (Frolovskaya, Florovskaya, Frololavrskaya, Jerusalem Gates) is a travel tower of the Moscow Kremlin overlooking Red Square in Moscow. It was built in 1491 by the architect Pietro Solari. In 1624-1625, the English architect Christopher…