On May 25, 1957 Soviet hotel Ukraina was opened. The second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era "seven sisters", hotel Ukraina is 198-meter high (34 stories). It was then the tallest hotel in the world. In 2010 the hotel was renovated and also received a new name - Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow. There are about 1,200 original paintings by the most prominent Russian artists of the first half of the 20th century, and on the first floor the diorama Moscow – Capital of the USSR in 1:75 scale shows the historical centre of Moscow and the city’s surroundings from Luzhniki to Zemlyanoi Val in the year 1977, when the artwork was created
Hotel Ukraina: a Soviet-era treasure in the heart of Moscow
60 years ago, one of seven iconic Moscow's skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style, hotel Ukraina was opened
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Hotel Ukraina and Novoarbatsky Bridge in Moscow, 1963
© TASS Monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in front of the Hotel Ukraina, 1967
© Naum Granovskiy/TASS Interior of the Ukraina Hotel, 1966
© Boris Trepetov/TASS Ukraina Hotel reopened as Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow after 3 years of restoration, 2010
© Maxim Shemetov/TASS Restaurant at Ukraina Hotel after reconstruction, 2010
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS Ceiling in the lobby of the Radisson Royal Hotel
© Artiom Korotaev/TASS Library at the club floor of the Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow
© Artiom Korotaev/TASS Presidential suite in the Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow
© Artiom Korotaev/TASS Small-scale model called "Moscow – Capital of the USSR" showing the historical centre of Moscow and the city’s surroundings
RCH 25, 2017: A view of the Radisson Royal Hotel.
© Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS