The “Seven Sisters” is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki (Russian: Сталинские высотки), “(Stalin’s) high-rises”. They were built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles, and the technology used in building American skyscrapers. The Seven are: 01. Moscow State University 02. Hotel Ukraina 03. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 04. Hilton Moscow Ledidgradkaya Hotel 05. Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building 06. Kudrinskaya Square Building 07. Red Gates Administrative Building

The “Seven Sisters” is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki (Russian: Сталинские высотки), “(Stalin’s) high-rises”. They were built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles, and the technology used in building American skyscrapers.

The Seven are:
01. Moscow State University
02. Hotel Ukraina
03. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
04. Hilton Moscow Ledidgradkaya Hotel
05. Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
06. Kudrinskaya Square Building
07. Red Gates Administrative Building

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    My mum can tell them apart at one glance, while I’m always like, “ohh that’s...MSU… no...
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