Theme Week Moscow – The Seven Sisters
3 January 2015 | Author/Destination: Russia / Russland | Rubric: General, Architecture, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time: 13 minutesThe Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. The term “Seven Sisters” is neither used nor understood by the local population, Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki, meaning “(Stalin’s) high-rises” (or “Stalinist skyscrapers”). They were built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles, and the technology used in building American skyscrapers.
Lomonosov Moscow State University – main building © Georg Dembowski/cc-by-sa-3.0
