The House of Soviets in Saint Petersburg was planned for the Leningrad Soviet government administration. The infobox lists Noi Trotsky as architect, with Lev Tverskoi, Modest Shepilevsky and Nikolai Tomsky as other designers, while the text names no architects. Construction began in 1936 per the infobox, and the text says it was completed just before the Nazi invasion of the USSR. The style is Stalinist architecture.
It stands on undeveloped southern outskirts. The text calls it the purest form of totalitarian monumentality. In front is Moscow Square, with a 1970 Lenin monument by Mikhail Anikushin and fountains added in 2006.
It was never used for its intended government purpose. In 1941 it was fortified and used as a Red Army command post during the Siege of Leningrad. It later housed a military electronics research institute, and it is now rented as office space. The article gives no hours.
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