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The Seven Sisters in Moscow
 Feeling Deja Vu in Moscow - The Seven Sisters!
The seven sisters is Moscow is the term given to a group of seven buildings in Moscow that all were built in the same style and look very similar. The seven sisters is the common term used in English, however the Russians call them Stalinskie Vysotki, meaning Stalin's high-rises.
The seven buildings were built between 1947 and 1953. The buildings that compose the seven sisters include: The Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hotel Leningradskaya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main building of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building.
 As for Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev recalled Stalin's words, "We won the war ... foreigners will come to Moscow, walk around, and there's no skyscrapers. If they compare Moscow to capitalist cities, it's a moral blow to us." Therefore seven skyscrapers designed using technology from American skyscrapers were built across the city.
The seven buildings were constructed in an elaborate combination of Russian baroque and Gothic styles, making for a unusual but equally impressing sight.
When you're traveling around Moscow and you start feel a little deja vu thinking that you've already seen that building, remember the seven sisters, and keep an eye out for the others!
13.05.2011
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