The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, romanized: Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on...
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Officers Palace of the Soviets Cultural center Institute of Culture Mechanics' institutes People's House, previous term that existed in the Russian Empire...
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supposed to make way for a colossal Palace of the Soviets to house the country's legislature, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Construction started in 1937...
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Moskva Pool (category Buildings and structures built in the Soviet Union)
foundation of the abandoned Palace of the Soviets, to the designs of Moscow architect Dmitry Chechulin. Construction of the Palace of Soviets had begun...
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Boris Iofan (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931–1933 winning draft of the Palace of the Soviets. Born in Odesa, Iofan graduated in 1916 from Italy's Regio Istituto...
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with the Soviet Union, starting with his first trip to Moscow in 1928, and ending with the rejection of his proposal for the Palace of the Soviets in 1932...
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executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and...
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Seven Sisters (Moscow) (redirect from Seven Sisters of Moscow)
Building and the Palace of the Soviets. The construction of the first Soviet skyscraper project, the Palace of the Soviets, was interrupted by the German invasion...
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Volkshalle (category Abandoned projects of Nazi Germany)
generated model of the Volkshalle emerges from Lake Wannsee. Nazi architecture Palace of the Soviets Reichstag building Symbolism of domes Speer, Erinnerungen...
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Hans Poelzig (category Academic staff of the Prussian Academy of Arts)
hands until 1995. Some of his designs that were never built included one for the Palace of the Soviets and one for the League of Nations headquarters at...
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The State Kremlin Palace (Russian: Государственный Кремлёвский дворец), previously and unofficially known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский...
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October Revolution (redirect from Storming of the Winter Palace)
left the palace. With the Petrograd Soviet now in control of government, garrison, and proletariat, the Second All Russian Congress of Soviets held its...
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Totalitarian architecture (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
vast cities constructed in their own honour. Stalin's Palace of the Soviets was to be higher than the Empire State Building. Hitler's Reich Chancellery was...
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Military Officers Palace of the Soviets (special case) Education in the Soviet Union Young Pioneer camp Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union Children's...
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Stalinist architecture (redirect from Soviet Classicism)
the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and 1955 (when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet...
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House of Soviets (Дом советов) or House of the Soviets may refer to: House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), an incomplete building on the site of Königsberg Castle...
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of the Soviets, but the palace was never built.[citation needed] After his release from serving a 20-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the assassination...
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Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (redirect from International Congresses of Modern Architecture)
planning. The fourth CIAM meeting in 1933 was to have been held in Moscow. The rejection of Le Corbusier's competition entry for the Palace of the Soviets, a...
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abbreviated as the CEC (Russian: ЦИК, romanized: TsIK), was the supreme governing body of the USSR in between sessions of the All-Union Congress of Soviets from...
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The Seven Sisters is inspired by the Palace of the Soviets. The Palace of the Soviets was planned to be built in the early 1930s on the banks of the Moscow...
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Joseph Stalin (redirect from Joseph, Man of Steel)
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, destroyed in 1931 to make way for the Palace of the Soviets. Religion retained an influence over the population; in the 1937...
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Germania (city) (redirect from City of Hitler)
Nordstern (city) Palace of the Soviets Speer und Er Stalinist architecture Totalitarian architecture Der Untergang Volkshalle – the Great Hall Notes Friedrich...
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Kropotkinskaya (category Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow)
of the demise of the Palace of Soviets project, much of Kropotkinskaya's planned ridership never materialized. As of 2013[update] the station serves about...
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Tatlin's Tower (redirect from The Monument to the Third International)
"Fountain of Light by Ai Weiwei". My Favorite Arts. Wainwright, Oliver (7 November 2017). "Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel's spectacular palace of culture...
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Hector Hamilton (category Year of birth missing)
British Listed Buildings. 1 June 1938. Retrieved 5 February 2012. The Palace of the Soviets. A project by Hector Hamilton - documentary film on YouTube...
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Constructivist architecture (category Architecture in the Soviet Union)
popularised the style abroad with his 1930 book The Reconstruction of Architecture in Russia. The 1932 competition for the Palace of the Soviets, a grandiose...
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alongside the Palace of the Soviets, Siena Cathedral and Ryugyong Hotel. Szkieletor repurposed as a billboard display in 2009 Szkieletor in 2014, with the billboards...
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Dmitry Chechulin (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
the Palace of the Soviets competition (the major event in Soviet architectural history) at multiple points. He was among the twelve finalists in the final...
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as the Palace of Soviets was never built.[citation needed] Only the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union could deprive a person of this...
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The Presidential Palace (Polish: Pałac Prezydencki) is the official residence of the Polish head of state and president alongside the Belweder Palace...
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