Palace of the Soviets

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The palace of the Soviets (Russian: Dvorjez Sovjetov/Дворецсоветов; [dvʌˈrʲets sʌˈvʲetəf]) a not-carried out building project of the Soviet Union government was into the 1930s years in the Soviet capital Moscow. The palace would have become after completion with a height of 415 m the largest building of the world.

The advertisement around the draft for the building of the palace won the architect Boris Iofan. In the course of history around the palace there were again and again changes at the building concept, are it the appearance or the location of the palace in Moscow concerning.

[edit] Planning

Plannings for the building of a so-called palace of the Soviets like it in a meeting, for which in styles of the socialist classicism should be built, already began 1922 read, in the establishment year of the USSR. On the I.th Party Congress of the CPSU of the yearly 1922 plans were expressed by Josef Stalins potential rival in the struggle for power around the Soviet (advice) rule Sergei Kirow.