🏛 Moscow Central Post Office

Мясницкая ул., 26А, стр. 1

A 1912 building on Myasnitskaya, Moscow's main post office; under restoration since 2020, so you can't go inside now (work was planned to finish in 2027), but you can look from outside.

The building was built in 1910–1912 to a design by the engineer Leonid Novikov and the architect Oskar Munts with the participation of Leonid Vesnin.
The post office was ceremonially opened on 14 May 1912; the first Museum of Postal Communication began working in it at the same time.
The facade was to be clad in striped brick "in the Byzantine style", but brick got more expensive, so artificial stone imitating marble was used.
The glass dome of the main hall is often attributed to Shukhov, but that is an urban legend.
The post office stands on the site of an estate once owned by Alexander Menshikov.
In 1913 about 12% of all the country's correspondence passed through the Moscow Post Office.
In October 1917 there was fighting at the post office between cadets and Red Guards.