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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Moscow, Rossiya, Russiaen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1948-1953 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorOltarzhevsky, Vyacheslaven_US
dc.date1948-1953en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-22T16:48:58Z
dc.date.available2013-01-22T16:48:58Z
dc.date.issued1948-1953en_US
dc.identifier186280en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1711en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/93505
dc.descriptionContext view; The "Seven Sisters" is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki, "(Stalin's) tall buildings". They were built during the dictator's last years, 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles, and the technology used in building American skyscrapers. The seven are: Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Leningradskaya Hotel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building. Ukraina by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (leading Soviet expert on steel-framed highrise construction) is the second tallest of the "sisters" (198 meters, 34 levels), and is still Europe's tallest hotel. Total capacity is 1627 beds. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/22/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleHotel Ukraineen_US
dc.title.alternativeHotel Ukrainaen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-R-M-HU-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextRussianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehotel (public accommodation)en_US
vra.worktypeskyscraperen_US
dc.contributor.displayVyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (Russian architect, 1880-1966)en_US


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