Architectural Styles
Stalinist
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1933-1955
- Grandeur
- symmetry
- monumental structures
- rich ornamentation
- blend of neoclassical & Soviet themes
- local materials,
- stone
- integrated with grand public spaces
- plazas & courtyards
- USSR
- Russia
- influenced Eastern Europe
- Former Soviet Republics
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Govt
- Cultural
- large apartment developments
- Moscow
- Metro
- Seven Sisters (Stalin’s Skyscrapers)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Palace of Soviets [never completed]
- Red Army Theatre (now the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army),
- Gorky Park
- VDNH
- Textile Institute
- Dorogomilovo West, city “gates”
- Rosenfeld’s twin towers in Dorogomilovo
- Beijing Exhibition Center; Central Universal Department Store (TsUM), Nizhny Novgorod
- House of Lions
- Palace of culture in NizhnyTagil
- Yerevan railway station
- Latvian Academy of Sciences Riga
- Party House Sofia, Bulgaria
- Grand State Hotels (Flagship Stalinist Hotels)
- Intourist Hotels (Official Foreign-Visitor Accommodation)
- Railway & Gateway Hotels
- Provincial Capital Stalinist Hotels
- Stalinist Resort & Spa Hotels
- Hotel Ukraina (one of the Seven Sisters)
- Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya
- Hotel National (Stalinist remodelling phase)
- Intourist Hotel Moscow
- Hotel Metropol (operated under Intourist during Stalin era)
- Hotel Moscow (historic Stalinist form, now replaced)
- Hotel Yerevan
- Rodina Grand Hotel & Spa
- Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium
- Moskva Hotel
- Grand Hotel International Prague
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