House on Embankment (Moscow)
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Moscow /
ulitsa Serafimovicha, 2/20
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/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 1 km from center (Москва)
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The House on Embankment is a block-wide apartment house in downtown Moscow. It was completed in 1931 as the Government Building, a residence of Soviet elite. It was designed by Boris Iofan.
The site was located in Bersenevka neighborhood of the island across Moscow Kremlin, that was occupied by the Wine and Salt Court, an old distillery and excise warehouse. The building currently has 505 apartments, a theater, a movie theater, restaurants and retail stores.
The site was located in Bersenevka neighborhood of the island across Moscow Kremlin, that was occupied by the Wine and Salt Court, an old distillery and excise warehouse. The building currently has 505 apartments, a theater, a movie theater, restaurants and retail stores.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Embankment
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Coordinates: 55°44'38"N 37°36'44"E
- Power Station "Branch GES-1" 0.1 km
- Chocolate factory "Krasny Oktyabr" 0.3 km
- Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge under revamp 0.5 km
- The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts 0.7 km
- Pashkov House 0.8 km
- The Grand Kremlin Palace 0.8 km
- Commandant of the Moscow Kremlin 0.9 km
- Pushkin State Museum 1 km
- Russian State Library 1 km
- Zachatyevsky Monastery 1 km
- Golden Mile 0.9 km
- Zemlyanoy Gorod 1 km
- Tsentralny Administrative Okrug 1.1 km
- Balchug Island 1.1 km
- Bely Gorod ('The White Town') 1.4 km
- Arbat District 1.5 km
- Yakimanka District 1.7 km
- Zamoskvorechye District 1.7 km
- Khamovniki District 2.7 km
- Presnensky District 3.6 km