The Senate Tower is one of the oldest towers in the Moscow Kremlin. It is located on the eastern wall between the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya towers and overlooks Red Square, Moscow. It was built in 1491 by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari by the…

The Mausoleum of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (in 1953-1961 – the Mausoleum of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin) is a monument-tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, where since 1924, the body of Vladimir Lenin has been preserved…

Nikolskaya Tower is a travel tower of the Moscow Kremlin overlooking Red Square (Moscow). It was built in 1491-1492 by architect Pietro Antonio Solari. Until the end of the 15th century, that is, before the creation of Red Square, Nikolskaya Street began…

The House of Writers in Lavrushinsky Lane is a residential building, an architectural monument, located in the city of Moscow, an object of the cultural heritage of Russia of regional significance. In the 1930s, the site in Lavrushinsky Lane was transferred…

The city estate of E. I. Vandyshnikova – E. M. Banza is an architectural ensemble in Moscow on Vorontsovo Pole Street. The name is given in honor of the principal owners. In the 18th century, it belonged to Elizaveta Ivanovna from the family of merchants…

The Association “Russian Historical Society” is a Russian scientific public organization founded on June 20, 2012, declaring its secession from the Imperial Russian Historical Society that existed in the Russian Empire from 1866-1917. According to the charter…

The Kremlin in Izmailovo is a cultural and entertainment complex built in 1998-2007 near the historical royal estate of Izmailovo in Moscow. It is a wooden building, stylized as Russian architecture of the XVI-XVII centuries (neo-historicism). In 1998, public…

The Third Building of the Ministry of Defense is an administrative building in Moscow located on Frunzenskaya Embankment of Moscow river. Now it is the main building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The complex of the Ministry of Defense…

The Pashkov House is one of the most famous classical buildings in Moscow, now owned by the Russian State Library. It is designed (presumably) by Vasily Bazhenov. The Pashkov House was built in 1784-1786 by order of the captain-lieutenant of the Life Guards…

TASS is a Russian state federal news agency, a former Soviet news agency. Organizational and legal form – FSUE. Previously, the abbreviation came from “Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union,” and the current abbreviation comes from “Telegraph Agency for Communications.”…

The building of the Moscow City Hall (House of Golitsin, Chernyshev’s estate) is located in Moscow at Tverskaya Street, 13. It was built in 1782 according to the project of architect Matvey Kazakov and, until 1917, served as the residence of the Moscow governor…

Old Gostiny Dvor is the oldest Gostiny Dvor in Moscow. It occupies the Kitay-gorod quarter between Varvarka and Ilyinka streets and Khrustalny and Rybny lanes. In the 1990s, it was rebuilt as a trade and exhibition complex. The stone Gostiny Dvor was built…

Batashev’s manor is a manor complex in central Moscow, located on Taganka, on Shviva Gorka, a vivid monument of Moscow classicism. It is situated at Yauzskaya Street, house 11, and various buildings on Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya street. The main surviving…

The Domnikov Business Center consists of three buildings located on a single stylobate. Situated in the Krasnoselsky district at the address: Academician Sakharov Avenue, house 30 near the Garden ring and Komsomolskaya Square (area of three stations), Moscow.…

The residential building of the Electrode Plant is in Moscow, within the Garden Ring, at Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, house No. 4/22B. Per the General Plan of 1935, the embankments of the Moscow River were positioned as the city’s best residential areas.…

The Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is a wooden royal palace built in the village of Kolomenskoye in Moscow in the second half of the 17th century. It was a system of stands – separate wooden rooms connected by passages. In 2010, a life-size historical…

The Central Telegraph Building is a Soviet Art Deco building located on Tverskaya Street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. It was built in 1925-1927, according to the project of architect Ivan Rerberg. It was intended to accommodate the main…

The building of the Izvestia newspaper is famous for its style of constructivism, located on Tverskaya Street at Pushkinskaya Square, 3 in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. From 1927 to 2011, the building housed the editorial office of the Izvestia newspaper.…

The office building of Sytin is an architectural monument located on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. The building was erected in 1904 according to the architect A. E. Erichson’s project, and the engineer V. G. Shukhov developed the floor structures. In addition…

The multifunctional complex Oruzheyny is a business center located at 41 Oruzheyny Lane, Garden Ring, in the Tverskoy District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. After a competition, Mikhail Posokhin was chosen as the architect of the building.…

The building of Loan Treasury is a landmark building in Nastasinsky Lane (near Tverskaya street) in Moscow. Made in the neo-Russian style, it is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. Since 1941, the State Bank of the USSR has been in the…