Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September, 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechulin (then Chief Architect of Moscow) and Andrei Rostkovsky. The main tower has 32 levels (including mechanical floors) and is 176 metres (577 ft) tall.

The building also incorporates a 9-story apartment block facing Moskva River, designed by the same architects in 1938 and completed in 1940. Originally build in stern early Stalinist style, with wet stucco wall finishes, it was re-finished in terra cotta panels in line with the main tower and acquired ornate pseudo-Gothic crowns over its 12-story raised corners and center tower. By the end of World War II, the side wing was converted to multi-family kommunalka housing, in a contrast to the planned elite status of the main tower.

An apartment in the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building was a dream of the Soviet elite. Faina Ranevskaya, Klara Luchko, Mikhail Zharov, Lyudmila Zykina, Nonna Mordyukova, Alexander Shirvindt, Roman Karmen, Galina Ulanova, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Tvardovsky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrey Voznesensky, Vasily Aksyonov, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Ivan Pyriyev, Marina Ladynina.