Moscow Hotels

The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel may be recognized by visitors for a repeat visit to Moscow as one of the so-called Seven Sisters - skyscrapers that were built in Moscow from 1947 to 1953 under the Stalinist regime. A skyscraper of eight to be built under the development plan of Stalin's Moscow has never been realized.

As one of Moscow's hotels built during the neo-classical Stalinist architecture, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel was designed to be the best luxury hotel in Moscow could offer when it was finished. Those familiar with the architectural style of the 1930 American skyscrapers can see elements of this style mixed with the neoclassical architecture of Russia in the Hotel Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya.

Currently, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya is a member of the Hilton hotel chain worldwide. It is part of Hilton Hotels, after an investment of several million dollars has been poured into its restoration and renovation. It now offers not only rooms for visitors but also the services of a business center, conference room, health center, gift shop, currency exchange, post office, salon salon, a billiards room, a cafed, a casino, lounge, bar and restaurant to its guests.

At the time of the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel was known simply as the Hotel Leningradskaya, Khrushchev noted that although the building followed the Stalinist doctrine of neoclassical Moscow hotels, it was built very inefficiently. The construction cost of the 354 rooms at this hotel was in fact an equivalent to 1000 rooms, and every step of the total space would be able to rent, said Khrushchev (which means that only 22% of the space Global was able to rent his opinion.) Khrushchev further noted that the hotel beds were 50% higher cost per bed in another hotel in Moscow, namely Hotel Moskva.

history lovers of architecture will also find that the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel (as all the skyscrapers from the group Seven Sisters) has been relatively short compared to U.S. standards for skyscrapers because the ineffectiveness of another construction-related - the total weight by skyscrapers is too heavy for them to become high-rise buildings. In fact, each of the Seven Sisters was much heavier than the skyscrapers in the United States.

Fortunately, even if the Seven Sisters had some defects in style and construction, they have remained fairly stable in building engineering standards to last until today. There are other existing hotels in the Moscow city such as the Hotel Metropol and the Moskva Hotel, but none of the other hotels in Moscow was able to go to the Guinness Book of World Records as the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya . The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel has been recognized by the Guinness record makers as having one of the fixtures longer to be found anywhere in the world. Not bad for a hotel in Moscow once ruled by the Soviet leader Khrushchev as a product of bureaucratic excesses.