• The House of Soviets is an emblematic building because it was built on the Königsberg Castle, which was drastically destroyed after the Second World War.
  • The House of Soviets (Russian: Дом Советов, Dom Sovetov) is the office building built in Stalinist style in the late 1930s in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad).
  • The House of Soviets was emblematic of Kaliningrad's rich cultural history for more than 50 years. It took more than 20 years to build...
  • The House of Soviets, better known as Dom Sovietov, is an unoccupied brutalist building which is located in the center of Kaliningrad, in the exclave of.
  • The ‘House of the Soviets’ is one of the most famous buildings in Kaliningrad, rivaling, perhaps, only the Konigsberg Cathedral and Immanuil Kant’s grave close...
  • This House of Soviets is located in the Moskovsky Prospekt, just a little bit south off the Chesme Palace and Church.
  • Intended to house the central offices of the city administration, the House of Soviets was built 1936-1941 by a group of architects led by Noy Trotsky.
  • Alexander told us, “Along with the Cathedral, the House of the Soviets is the dominant work of architecture in Kaliningrad, so I just couldn’t pass it up.
  • Construction began on the House of Soviets in 1960, and was intended to be the central administration building of the Kaliningrad Oblast.
  • But if the House of Soviets is an abandoned building that stains the reputation of Kaliningrad due to its ugliness, why the city doesn’t tear it down?