- Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street 21/1
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55.769913, 37.649325 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Inner yard of the skyscraper, metal gates of the playground
- Number of white flowers
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18
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Историческая справка
In 1947, when Moscow turned 800 years old, the government decided to erect 8 high-rise buildings in honor of this event. All 8 skyscrapers were laid at 1pm on the day of the 800th anniversary of Moscow - September 7, 1947. Simultaneously with the foundation of the skyscrapers, a monument to Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow, was opened, and it was him who blessed Moscow for entering a new era.
According to Joseph Stalin, these skyscrapers were to become a symbol of the restoration of the USSR after the war. Stalin is also credited with the words "They go to America, then they come and gasp - oh, what huge houses are there! Now let them go to Moscow to look at what houses we have, let them gasp."
Until 1949, a whole block of pre-revolutionary buildings was located on the site of the future skyscraper on the Red Gate with a mansion where Mikhail Lermontov, a great Russian poet, was born.
The current building has a total height of 133 meters and 24 levels. During the Soviet period, its central part was occupied by the Ministry of Transport Construction (now several offices of Russian Railways are still situated there). In the side buildings with variable number of storeys from 11 to 15 there are 276 apartments.
The skyscraper was constructed by the architects Alexey Dushkin and Boris Mezentsev. The project was quite expensive and difficult to execute. During the construction of the high-rise building, a new vestibule of the Krasnye Vorota metro station was also built. To prevent the floating soil from flooding the station pit, it was necessary to freeze it with powerful refrigeration units. But, having thawed, the ground would inevitably sag, and the constructed building would inevitably tilt. Knowing this, the builders deliberately tilted the under construction building - but only in the opposite direction. When the construction was completed, the ground thawed, sagged - and the building took a strictly vertical position. Due to the particular complexity of the calculations, this method of constructing high-rise buildings has never been used anywhere else.
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