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    The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, Dvorec Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of...
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    supposed to make way for a colossal Palace of the Soviets to house the country's legislature, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Construction started in 1937...
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    Moskva Pool (category Buildings and structures built in the Soviet Union)
    foundation of the abandoned Palace of the Soviets, to the designs of Moscow architect Dmitry Chechulin. Construction of the Palace of Soviets had begun...
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    Officers Palace of the Soviets Cultural center Institute of Culture Mechanics' institutes People's House, previous term that existed in the Russian Empire...
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    executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and...
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    Boris Iofan (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
    1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931–1933 winning draft of the Palace of the Soviets. Born in Odesa, Iofan graduated in 1916 from Italy's Regio Istituto...
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    Building and the Palace of the Soviets. The construction of the first Soviet skyscraper project, the Palace of the Soviets, was interrupted by the German invasion...
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    with the Soviet Union, starting with his first trip to Moscow in 1928, and ending with the rejection of his proposal for the Palace of the Soviets in 1932...
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    Volkshalle (category Abandoned projects of Nazi Germany)
    generated model of the Volkshalle emerges from Lake Wannsee. Nazi architecture Palace of the Soviets Reichstag building Symbolism of domes Speer, Erinnerungen...
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    The State Kremlin Palace (Russian: Государственный Кремлёвский дворец), previously and unofficially known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский...
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