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      The skyscraper, Narkomfin and Mayakovskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A Stalin-era skyscraper on Kudrinskaya across from the constructivist communal house, and the columned hall of Mayakovskaya with Deineka's mosaics. Soviet Moscow in three styles.

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        🏛 Kudrinskaya Square skyscraper
        A residential Stalinist skyscraper of 1954 on Vosstaniya Square, with stepped wings and a spire.
        A residential skyscraper from 1954; the best angle is from Novinsky Boulevard
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        Kudrinskaya Square skyscraper
        © Vsatinet · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The skyscraper was built in 1948–1954, designed by Mikhail Posokhin and Ashot Mndoyants.
        • Construction was overseen by the Ministry of Aviation Industry, and many flats went to aircraft designers and test pilots, hence the nickname "House of Aviators".
        • The central part has 33 floors, 22 of them residential.
        • For Soviet housing the building was innovative: underground parking, a pram room on the ground floor, centralised dust removal.
        • At the bottom were Gastronom No. 15, covering 6,000 m² and the city's largest shop, and the 540-seat Plamya cinema.
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        🏛 Narkomfin Building
        Новинский б-р, 25, корп. 1
        🎟 ticket · a residential building: inside only by guided tour with advance booking
        Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist communal house on pilotis (stilts) with ribbon windows.
        A constructivist communal house from 1930 — compare it with the skyscraper opposite
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        Narkomfin Building
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The building was built in 1928–1930 by Moisei Ginzburg, Ignaty Milinis and engineer Sergei Prokhorov; Ginzburg called it an "experimental house of a transitional type".
        • The People's Commissar of Finance Nikolai Milyutin built himself a two-level penthouse on the roof, in a volume intended for a ventilation chamber.
        • The colours of the flats were chosen by the Bauhaus professor Hinnerk Scheper; the brightest tone was applied to the ceilings.
        • Residents were offered meals in the canteen of the communal block and a mechanical laundry for their linen.
        • The building has three times been on the list of the "100 world buildings under threat of destruction"; in 2016–2020 it was restored by Ginzburg Architects.
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        🏛 Mayakovskaya metro station
        A light columned hall of 1938 with arches and pink rhodonite; a ceremonial meeting was held here in November 1941.
        Deineka's ceiling mosaics “A Day of the Soviet Sky” — look up
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        Mayakovskaya metro station
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • In 1939 the station's design won the Grand Prix at the New York World's Fair.
        • The stainless-steel strips for finishing the columns and arches were made at the Dirizhablestroy plant in Dolgoprudny.
        • The mosaics in the ceiling niches, from sketches by Alexander Deineka, form the theme "A Day of the Soviet Sky"; of the 35 panels, one is lost.
        • The station was to be called Triumfalnaya Ploshchad, and then Ploshchad Mayakovskogo.
        • On the night of 17 to 18 July 2017 the first episode of season seven of Game of Thrones was shown at the station.
        • Since 2021, wedding ceremonies have been held on the platform at night.

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