Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya


The Leningradskaya – now owned and operated by Hilton – is the smallest of the Stalinist skyscrapers that dot the city. At 136m, it towers over Komsomolskaya pl, echoing the ornamentation on nearby Kazan Station. The architect Leonid Polyakov was apparently stripped of his Stalin Prize when Khrushchev decided the hotel was an inefficient use of space.


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