Red Gate Building (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow /
Sadovaya-Spasskaya ulitsa, 21/1
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 4 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / Central
office building, high-rise, apartment building, 1953_construction, Stalinist (architecture), object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia)
The Red Gate Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers, designed by Alexey Dushkin. Its name comes from the Red Gate square.
The main tower has 24 levels and is 133 metres (436 ft) tall. The building also incorporates two 11-story apartment blocks, designed by the same architect. Both the right and the left wing contain around 300 flats.
The skyscraper was laid down in 1947 and completed in 1953. The construction of the tower was complicated by its location near the Moscow Metro tunnels and the Krasnyye Vorota station. Dushkin built a second entrance to the station into the ground floor of the tower, which opened on 31 July 1954.
After being the headquarter of the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry the administrative part of the skyscraper also hosted the Ministry of Transport Construction. The building is also known as Lermontov Tower from Mikhail Lermontov and the Lermontovskaya Square, the name assigned to the Red Gate square between 1962 and 1986.
The main tower has 24 levels and is 133 metres (436 ft) tall. The building also incorporates two 11-story apartment blocks, designed by the same architect. Both the right and the left wing contain around 300 flats.
The skyscraper was laid down in 1947 and completed in 1953. The construction of the tower was complicated by its location near the Moscow Metro tunnels and the Krasnyye Vorota station. Dushkin built a second entrance to the station into the ground floor of the tower, which opened on 31 July 1954.
After being the headquarter of the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry the administrative part of the skyscraper also hosted the Ministry of Transport Construction. The building is also known as Lermontov Tower from Mikhail Lermontov and the Lermontovskaya Square, the name assigned to the Red Gate square between 1962 and 1986.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Building
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Coordinates: 55°46'11"N 37°38'58"E
- HSE ICEF 0.2 km
- Sadovaya-Spasskaya ulitsa, 24 0.2 km
- Sadovaya-Spasskaya ulitsa, 13 строение 2 0.2 km
- Ministry of Agriculture 0.3 km
- Novoryazanskaya ulitsa, 8 0.4 km
- Volkov-Yusupov Chambers 0.4 km
- The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation 0.6 km
- Alfa Bank 0.6 km
- Kalanchyovskaya ulitsa, 29 0.7 km
- Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation 0.7 km
- Lermontovskaya Square 0.1 km
- Krasnye Vorota Square 0.1 km
- The All-Russia Research Institute of Electromechanics (NPP VNIIEM) 0.3 km
- Clean Ponds Boulevard 0.9 km
- Krasnoselsky District 0.9 km
- Basmanny District 1.4 km
- Meshchansky District 1.6 km
- Bely Gorod ('The White Town') 2.3 km
- Zemlyanoy Gorod 2.7 km
- Tsentralny Administrative Okrug 2.9 km
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