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Main entrance A 1960 soviet stamp features the main building of Moscow State University. The leading architect Boris Iofan bid for the skyscraper project in 1947 but the job was assigned to Lev Rudnev , because Iofan made a mistake placing his draft skyscraper right on the edge of Sparrow Hills , a site concerned with a potential landslide hazard.
The main building of Moscow State University, one of the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters (Russian: Сталинские высотки, romanized: Stalinskije vysotki, lit. 'Stalin's high-rises') are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. They were built from 1947 to 1953. [1]
MSU is arguably the oldest, most prestigious and largest university in Russia. This main building is also the tallest of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, a group of similarly styled high-rises around Moscow. The overbuilt central tower consumed over 40,000 metric tons of steel, and from WW II until 1990, it was the tallest building in Europe.
A study of 100 architects working in Moscow between the 1890s and 1910s by Maria Naschokina shows that more than half of them graduated from the school. [3] The fact that most school graduates lacked a full state diploma was a major drawback in state employment, but irrelevant for the private clients that dominated construction market in Moscow ...
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, [a] is a public research university in Moscow, Russia. [3] The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches. Alumni of the university include past leaders of the Soviet Union and other governments.
Main building of Moscow State University: 1953–2005 240 / 787 36 [86] Triumph Palace: 2005–2007 264.1 / 867 57 [87] Naberezhnaya Tower, Block C 2007–2010
Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) - MArchI (Russian: Московский Архитектурный Институт (Государственная Академия) - МАрхИ) is a famous architecture school located in Moscow, Russia. Since 1994, the Institute has been accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects. [1]
Rudnev was also a member of Academy of Architecture of the USSR. Rudnev's most remarkable architectural work is the ensemble of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills , then known as Lenin Hills (1948–1953, co-designed with S. Chernyshyov, P. Abrosimov, A. Khryakov, and engineer V. Nasonov).