Palace of the Soviets
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The Palace of the Soviets was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The main function of the palace was to house sessions of the Supreme Soviet in its... Wikipedia
Architect(s): Boris Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Helfreich
Architectural style: Art Deco, Neoclassicism, Stalinist architecture
Construction stopped: 1941
Diameter: 130 m (430 ft) (grand hall, internal); 160 m (520 ft) (central core, external)
Groundbreaking: 1933
Height: 416 m (1,365 ft) (1937 variant)