Moscow, Russia
Architecture
The building represents one of the so called "Seven Sisters", seven Stalinist era socialist classicism skycrapers built between 1947 to 1955.
structure overview
Architecture: Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
historic names
Building of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Здание Министерства иностранных дел СССР
(Zdanie Ministerstva inostranny'x del SSSR)
[Russian]
1953-1991
built
1948-1953
style/period
work type by function
work type form/concept
architect
Specifications
Specifications: Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
height
172.0 m
width
160.0 m
area
65,000 m²
Geography
local language location name
Москва (Moskva), Россия (Rossija) [Russian]
historical affiliations
1953-1991
Image characteristics
maximum image resolution
3,548 × 5,322 pixel
30.0 × 45.1 cm (300 dpi)
capture date
image processing
colour corrected
copyrights
Benjamin Hemer
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