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The Aeroflot Building designed by Dmitry Chechulin, 1934.
An unrealized project, the Aeroflot Building was posed to be placed where the Belorussky Station was built. Dmitry Chechulin, later becoming chief architecture of Moscow in 1945, intending the building to memorialize the heroism supposedly typified…
Photo Collage with Architectural drawing of the Red Square facing southeast, designer unknown, circa 1934.
The newly emerging Russian state had begun searching for its civic identity. Under Stalin, a singular vision was beginning to form and is evident in the 1935 central plan of Moscow. Moscow was to become an international metropolis and the crown jewel…
Moscow boundary expansion 2012
A map of the boundary expansion of Moscow to include certain towns and suburbs in 2012
Tophane
Istanbul, general view of Tophane district and the Bosphorus.
