Built by Stalin as symbols of victory and a new era of Soviet power, the colossal Seven Sisters skyscrapers in Russia's capital still impress amid newer high-rises. In the grey days of the Soviet ...

10 The tallest of the sisters, at a cloud-slicing 240 meters, is the main building of Moscow State University. 11 The construction of the building was documented in a Soviet-era propaganda film .

The first Moscow skyscraper was completed in 1949, followed every three-five years by another (all but one of the remaining six). Later known as the “seven sisters”, ...