Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow is a five-star luxury hotel in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 city centre, on a bend of the Moskva River

Moskva River

The Moskva River is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River.-Etymology:...

, managed by the Rezidor Hotel Group.

History

Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow, originally built in 1953 as Hotel Ukraina by Arkady Mordvinov

Arkady Mordvinov

Arkady Grigoryevich Mordvinov was a Soviet architect and construction manager, notable for Stalinist architecture of Tverskaya Street, Leninsky Avenue, Hotel Ukraina skyscraper in Moscow and his administrative role in Soviet construction industry and architecture.-VOPRA years:Mordvinov was born in...

 and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky

Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky was a Russian Soviet architect. He was one of the first Soviet experts in skyscraper construction, notable for his collaboration with Arkady Mordvinov on Hotel Ukraina...

 (leading Soviet expert on steel-framed highrise construction), is the second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era "seven sisters

Seven Sisters (Moscow)

The "Seven Sisters" is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki , " high-rises"...

" (198 m (649.6 ft), with 34 stories). It was the tallest hotel in the world from the time of its construction until the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel opened in Atlanta, Georgia

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, United States

United States

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 in 1976. 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 façade of the former Hotel Ukraina was restored in detail, while modern technology has been added, including multi-level water cleaning systems and unique air circulation systems.

Facilities

The hotel features five hundred and five rooms, thirtyeight apartments, five restaurants, a conference centre, executive floor, banquet hall, library, spa & wellness centre with 50m indoor swimming pool, and a fleet of Moskva River yachts.

Art collection

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 diorama

Diorama

The word diorama can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum...

Moscow – Capital of the USSR in 1:75 scale 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.

External links

• Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow - Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow official website
• Hotel Ukraina - Hotel Ukraina official web site