🏛 House of Soviets

Московский пр., 212

The city's main monument of Stalinist Empire style

The building was built in 1936–1941 by a team of architects led by Noy Trotsky.
The plan was to move the city government here, farther from the Finnish border, but after the war of 1939–1940 the border moved back and the plan was cancelled.
In September 1941 a defence strongpoint with an artillery observation post of the Leningrad Front was set up in the building.
The central portico of 14 columns is crowned with a sculptural group by N. V. Tomsky and the coat of arms of the RSFSR.
On the east facade a half-rotunda of the assembly hall for three thousand people juts out.
The monument to Lenin by Mikhail Anikushin was placed in front of the building in 1970, as planned in the 1936 project.

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