Hotel Ukraina (now Radisson Royal Hotel) along the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia
Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow is a 5 Star Luxury Hotel in Moscow managed by Radisson Hotels. It is located in Moscow's city centre, on a bend of the Moskva River. Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow, originally built in 1953 as the Hotel Ukraina by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (leading Soviet expert on steel-framed highrise construction), is the second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era "seven sisters" (198 meters, 34 levels). It was the tallest hotel in the world from the time of its construction until the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel opened in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1975. Construction on the low river bank meant that the builders had to dig well below the water level. This was solved by an ingenious water retention system, using a perimeter of needle pumps driven deep into ground. The hotel reopened on April 28, 2010 after a 3-year-renovation as the Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow, with 505 bedrooms and 38 apartments. The impressive facade of the former “Hotel Ukraina” was repaired in detail, while modern technology has been added, including multi-level water cleaning systems and unique air circulation systems. The hotel features 505 rooms and 38 apartments, executive floor, five restaurants, a conference centre, banquet hall, library, spa & wellness centre with 50 m indoor swimming pool and a fleet of Moskva River yachts. There are also 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 unique Diorama “Moscow – Capital of the USSR” (scale 1:75) which shows the historical centre of Moscow and the city’s surroundings from Luzjniki to Zemlyanoi Val in the year 1977, when the artwork was created.
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Location: Hotel Ukraina, 2/1 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, building 1, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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