17 th biggest city in the world, can you guess it? It’s Moscow I’m talking about, but for old cold war’s sakes let’s be fair and also mention it’s 6th place back in 1950, measuring city-size is always a tricky thing and some mean Moscow is Europes largest city and so maybee cause nr of human beeings in a crowded place is not what we’re here to read about.

But Russian Pirog’s are? First of all this is actually a Swedish Pirog but that’s not
important and second of all I’m not trying to freak you out, it actually IS a pirogue it’s just
it’s not beein heated in the microwave yet and foremost of all: I’m trying to make a point here which
is that population in comparition with skycrapers is out of just as little of importance as the nationality of a pirogue.
I think.

To lead the subject into what it’s intended to be let’s talk alittle bit about monumentalism. Moscow IS monumentalism and No, I’m not drunk. With monumentalism is Moscow come height and here height doesn’t necessarily have to involve skyscrapers.

The 330 ft, 100 m tall space monument for example.

Other examples of this is churches in funny colors with a onion on top. However also skyscraper have had it’s era in Russian(Soviet) history. The Seven Sister skyscrapers where built in Stalinist style in the 1940, 1950:s.

The tallest of the seven sisters, Vysotniye Zdaniya
(Moscow State University) 240 m, 785 ft tall.

Not to forget of course is also the Ostankino TV Tower, once the tallest free standing structure in the world at 540 m, 1772 ft.

So tall it won’t even fit on the picture, let me se if I can find a better one…

Hm, well, maby representative for a troubled past, dunno.
Check out better Ostankino pics here if you want.

But just as the wind have changed down i Gorkij park so has building style and politics and also the skyline. It’s tallest at the moment, the Triumph-Palace is however not very representative of this but at least it’s fairly new and represents the current upswing of skyscrapers.(4 buildings UC abow 1000 ft, 300 m)

Triumph palace, 264 m 866 ft and the tallest of Moscow.
Topped out in 2005 believe it or not.