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Moscow | Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building

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View from Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in E direction. The 25-floor apartment building dominating this scene was built between 1947 and 1952. It represents one of the so-called Seven Sisters, seven representative Stalinist skyscrapers constructed in the years after World War II in different parts of the Soviet capital city.

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on Wednesday 20 May 2009 by Martin Mergili
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