architecture
Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Moscow, Russia
Architecture
The building represents one of the so called "Seven Sisters", seven Stalinist era socialist classicism skycrapers built between 1947 to 1955.
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
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