The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, romanized: Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

The Palace of the Soviets is the most famous and grandiose of the unrealized projects of the Soviet government. Conceived in the early 1920s, it was supposed to become the main building and...

Moscow Palace of Soviets is one of the most famous unfinished architectural projects in history. The huge (the biggest and tallest in the world) building would have become the symbol of the victory of socialism, the symbol of a new country and new Moscow .

The Palace of the Soviets was to be a major congress hall and administrative centre in Moscow, near the Kremlin. The project was never realised but the winning neoclassical design was by Boris Iofan. The site was to be where the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour had been demolished.

2016年2月21日 · The proposed ‘Palace of the Soviets’ was to have been topped by a cloud-clipping statue of Lenin. But then World War II intervened…

2025年2月4日 · The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets (1931–1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a skyscraper.

2018年6月26日 · In 1931, the Communists began drawing up plans to tear down Christ the Savior Cathedral and, in its place, build the Palace of the Soviets. It would have been the world’s tallest structure (and would still be #9 today).

2022年1月27日 · But based on Stalin's personal instructions, it was decided to build the Palace of the Soviets on the site of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior — it was destroyed in December of the same year. A contest for the best project was announced.

The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Dvorjez Sovjetov / Дворец Советов) was a building project planned by the government of the Soviet Union. A contest was held for the architectural design of the building from 1931 until 1933.

The palace was to become the center of the new Soviet Moscow and the tallest building in the world, symbolizing the victory of socialism. The design and construction of the palace marked the transition to the Stalinist Empire style in Soviet architecture.