🏛 Moscow State University Main Building

The tallest Stalinist skyscraper, 235 m with its spire, with a clock, a star on the spire and sculptures on the facade.

The building was built in four years: construction began in 1949, and by 1 September 1953 the university had its new building.
The first chief architect was Boris Iofan, but he was removed, and the project was completed by Lev Rudnev and his co-authors.
Iofan wanted to crown the tower with a huge statue, but in the end the building was finished with a spire and a star, like the other skyscrapers.
Until the 1990s the MSU main building was the tallest in Europe.
The dial of the tower clock is 8.74 m in diameter; as of 2014 it was the largest tower clock in Europe.
The parts of the spire were lifted through a temporary shaft inside the building, in which railway tracks were laid.
The building has 5,754 dormitory rooms for students and postgraduates and 184 flats.
The facade sculptures were made by Vera Mukhina's workshop; her proposal to put The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in front of MSU was rejected.