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      🏛 Northern River Terminal

      A 1937 terminal built like a ship, with a spire, long galleries and moorings on the Moscow Canal.

      Northern River Terminal
      © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
      Northern River Terminal
      © Nick shul · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • Architects Alexei Rukhlyadev and Vladimir Krinsky gave the terminal the look of a steamship: the verandas are decks and the tower with its spire is the funnel.
      • The building is 75 m tall including the spire, and the facade is 150 m long.
      • The terminal was built from 1933 together with the canal, using the labour of Dmitlag prisoners.
      • The star for the spire was made in 1935 at the same time as the first Kremlin stars, but to its own design; the story that it was taken from the Spasskaya Tower is not confirmed.
      • The spire with its star was designed to be retractable: it was raised for the navigation season and lowered for winter.
      • The columns are decorated with 24 majolica medallions: Five-Year Plan construction projects, the metro, the exploration of the Arctic.
      • In 1937 Rukhlyadev received a Grand Prix diploma for the project at the Paris Exhibition.

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      • North River Terminal and the parks on the water
      • Sunset at the River Terminal and dinner by the water
      • Friendship Park and the ship-shaped river station by the canal

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