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This place
“House with a spire” is a landmark of the Moskovsky district in St.Petersburg. The design originated in Stalin times and is quite often called Stalinist neo-classics. “The seven – sisters”, i.e. 7 high-risers, were built in Moscow and cloned in the biggest cities of the Soviet Union after. The 76-meters high building is St.Petersburg`s oldest skyscrapper constucted in 1953 to accomodate the Communist party leaders and military generals.
Interesting fact: The design of the seamen sculptures atop the roof were chosen because of a strange ingeneering project which was never completed – the street down was supposed to be turned into a canal to protect this part of the city from floods.
This day
On December 10, 1828, in St. Petersburg the Institute of Technology (St. Petersburg State Technological Institute) was founded by the order of Tsar Nicholas I. Initially it was a boarding school and the students to become specialists for “manufactures management or its different parts” were studying for free.
Among the eminent scientists who worked in the Institute are the author of periodic law and periodic table of elements Mendeleev D.M., the world-famous Handbook on Organic Chemistry author Beilstein F.F., the Russian cement industry founder Shuliachenko A.R., the author of automatic control theory Vyshnegradsky I.A. The American Television founder Zvorykin V.K. had graduated from this Institute as well.
