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      🏛 House of the Government (the "White House")

      A white building with a coat of arms on its tower (the clock was removed from it in 1994), built in 1972–1981 on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment; the Russian government works here.

      House of the Government (the "White House")
      © Крылов Иван · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The building was built in 1972–1981 to a design by Dmitry Chechulin; its authors received the Lenin Prize for it.
      • At first Chechulin proposed building the House of Soviets on Taganskaya Square.
      • The nickname "White House" stuck in August 1991, when the building became the center of resistance to the GKChP.
      • On 19 August 1991 Boris Yeltsin spoke by the building from a Taman Division tank.
      • In October 1993 tanks standing on the bridge fired 12 shells at the upper floors.
      • The architect Charles Jencks suggested marking the burned floors with black granite, but the facade was restored to its former look.
      • The Government of Russia has worked in the building since 1994.

      Part of these routes

      • On foot from the Kremlin to the City
      • Skyscrapers at sunset: Kudrinskaya and Ukraina
      • New Arbat, the White House and dinner above the City

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