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The Saviour Cathedral

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The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
The Saviour Cathedral
Phone:
+7 833 232-70-61

Address:
Ulitsa Bolshevikov, 50, Kirov 610000, Russia

The Palace of the Soviets was a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union near the Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's tallest structure of its time. Construction started in 1937, and was terminated by the German invasion in 1941. In 1941–1942, its steel frame was disassembled for use in fortifications and bridges. Construction was never resumed. In 1958, the foundations of the Palace were converted into what would become the world's largest open-air swimming pool, the Moskva Pool. The Cathedral was rebuilt in 1995–2000.A nearby subway station, built in 1935 as Palace of the Soviets station, was renamed Kropotkinskaya in 1957.
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