06:41 Those people are TV crews and journalists. Russia had expelled Czech, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian diplomats in retaliation to those countries expelling Russian diplomats. Russia summon the Ambassadors of those countries to the Foreign Ministry. That's why the TV crews and journalists are outside the Foreign Ministry.
It ain't no sky scraper, but just a tall building. I googled it, and it's like a minimi version. In my native language, German, it's even just called a Hochhaus (high/tall house), not Wolkenkratzer (sky scraper).
It's like the rape child of le style Empire, the Fascist (or downtown Washington DC, if you will) Stripped Classicism, and Gotham Art Deco - having a bad trip. Hence the Russian name for it: "сталинский ампир" ("Le style Empire Staliniste").
Luis Zuniga I have always liked them, too, and the term that I have used for them is Stalinist Gothic. They are so much more attractive than much of the modern-box-crap that afflicts so many cities around the world.
I'm from USA, I was looking info up on Russia. That is how I found you, and what led me to Bald. Turned out my youngest son use to watch you when you did videos of video game play. So you are well know threw all ages.
I'm from Poland and we have such a skyscpraper in Warsaw(capital) and it was actually given to Poland by Stalin. It's called "Palace of Culture and Science"
@@kunsthooligan_vegan nobody though about that... And I am not sure, if it is proven... Because it could also have been the Germans... I do not think, that the Nazis had an interest to have the USSR in good light....
@@rownicki01 how? Where? Do you have historians, who dealt with the documents for me you would recommend? But only who dealt with archives and documents...
Really liking the Moscow content. Seeing the provinces with Bald is cool but I feel like there's not much on the big cities in Russia on RU-vid and you're doing great here. Would be interested to see you in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok etc.
I’d like to see Roman in some of the republic cities in Russia such as Kazan, Grozny, Ufa, Makhachkala, Elista etc. Great to see all the local cultures mixed with Russian and Soviet architecture too.
As a native New Yorker, those buildings definitely take a ton of influence from the Manhattan municipal building, no doubt. It's a beautiful building, as are these. The Moscow metro though, that's a masterpiece all its own. Great video as always Roman. Keep up the great work!
@@SihirbazTsar55 They're all Art Deco style buildings in a similar vein. Manhattan Municipal is one of the earliest in that style, it influenced a lot of the ones built afterwards. Construction began on it in 1909 and was completed in 1914.
17:42 there's a scene in Polish classic comedy movie in which that building is being sold and when they ask the buyers what they are planning next they say "we are going to a place where there's more buildings like this" and they show photographs of all "Seven Sisters"
Magnificent Moscow I have been there twice and it’s should be a must do on people’s travel lists. Get there if you can. You can have a meal in the Radisson’s restaurant to get to see inside a Stalin Skyscraper and it was spectacular. Thanks Roman for this Vlog excellent. Cheers from Australia
To put it very short: Stalinka - stupidly expencive, don't even think about it, are you a billionere? Khruschevka - Oh, my babushka used to live in one of those. Brezhnevka - Same as the previous one, but babushka was a little richer.
@@ButterDog42069 What does Brezhnevka have to do with being richer? They just started being built ten years later and were slightly improved, but they were still being given to workers just like the Khrushchevkas before them. Babushkas didn't buy them, they got them for their labor. Also, don't mislead people into thinking that Stalinkas are incredibly expensive. Not all of them are located in the center of Moscow. A friend of mine bought a Stalinka six months ago and paid $14,000 for it - an identical size Khrushchevka in our city costs the same, and if it's in the center of the city, even more. Also, not all Stalinkas are so chic. There were a series of two- and three-story Stalinkas in which there was one kitchen per floor. Also in these buildings there were wooden floors and ceilings between floors, which without proper repair rotted away and now people literally fall through these floors. I saw a report on the news about a man who went to the bathroom at night in such a house, fell through the floor and drowned in shit. Oh yeah, here's another plus for you: some of them didn't even have a sewer system and the feces were pumped out of them by a sewage truck - a billionaire's dream for sure
@@TripleDDDD My mother visited St. Petersburg over a decade ago, and she loved it. She was struck by the beautiful architecture and how stylish and well-dressed so many of the people, especially young people, were.
у площади трёх вокзалов нормальный сейчас вайб, не то что раньше, когда можно было купить наручники и травматический пистолет в ларьке прямо напротив отделения милиции, а так же, когда круглые сутки там была смесь бомжей, беспризорников, цыган и извращенцев, стоящих в очереди за порнухой
4:34 As someone who used to work at a ski hill, the reason the snow lasts so long is that the continually pack it down when they groom the runs, that hard pack snow takes a lot longer to melt, also ski hills near city centers or areas without a lot of rain often use artificial snow that they are able to pile on thicker than snow would naturally fall.
Besides the ”Sister” in Bucharest (which was named Casa Scînteii - after our version of the Pravda - since renamed into the House of the Free Press - LOL!), we also have the House of the People - also renamed into the House of the Republic - which currently houses our Parliament. That one is just as insane as the ones in Moscow, it's basically the largest building in the world in terms of floor space, after the Pentagon. We also built a giant orthodox cathedral next to it, LOL.
That change from "House of Scînteii" to "House of the Free Press" does sound ironic! I am not sure what is more ironic: the "House of the Free Press", or that Soviet building at 17:46 which seems to have become... a Citibank? There's plenty of layers of irony on converting a Stalinist building into a bank owned by an American company... and that's an American you are talking to!
7:45 'Putin's convoy' was more likely President Lukashenko of Belarus or Governor Alexander Beglov of St Petersburg who were both in Moscow around this time.
Really enjoying these tours/vlogs. A big step up from a guy in a small room talking at a camera, as much as I love your regular videos, this is more fun.
The building at the Red Gates was built at the same as subway station under it. As the soil was frozen due to construction, it was built not vertically, but slightly tilted, and later rotated to be vertical when the ground unfroze and settled.
7:10 They were built during the Art Deco movement. Everyone was doing it. But the Russians definitely put their own twist on it. A bit more Art Nouveau with all the ornamentation. Definitely influenced by Neo-grecco/Romano architecture. Beautiful.
You’re getting very good and fluent in your public vlogs. Considering your first language isn’t English, you are more articulate and eloquent than 98% of native English speakers. Love you mate.
I actually really enjoy the stalinist architecture. It's got a classy, yet modern, flair that's perfectly unique to the time. I wish such a style would have persisted with the Soviet Union, but economic downturn dashed any hopes of that.
Actually that was Nikita Khrushchov who put an end to all such projects in mid 1950s calling them 'architectural excesses', and started building primitive boxes. He basically killed architecture in the USSR.
Man, I've never wanted to really visit Russia or Eastern Europe much but your videos have changed my thought process on that entirely. There's some cool ass shit there lol
From vlogs about mud, I'm not complaining about it, it was Chelyabinsk mud, but now we moved to Moscow architecture, I think the move was good. Great improvement.
The park outside the Moscow State University was the location of the fan park for the FIFA World Cup in 2018. I watched Russia play Egypt there but I got lost from my friends and then lost in the metro system too on the way back. Turns out that when there's an interchange of lines on the metro, the stations have different names! Would have been useful to know that as I was hopelessly confused.
If you are ever in NYC, take the subway (not the palace, that is the Moscow subway) downtown to the Woolworth Bldg. It's impressive in much the same way as any of the Seven Sisters. Great video; hope to see more of Moscow through your eyes. Take care and avoid press conferences with Putin. W
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Yes, although Asheville's entire downtown was and is art deco as it avoided the usual "urban renewal" so many other cities committed. Definitely worth a look.
Some say that the seven sisters in Moscow have just about as many floors below ground as they have above, but due to a lack of maintenance, everything below 3-6 depending on the building is filled with sewage, fungi and many other hazards, so nobody ventures there.
Yep we do have a lot of soviet buildings in Romania. Most of the time when Roman goes around a "soviet ghetto/city"....it just feels like home to a romanian :))
This place of the three train stations doesn’t strike me as too dangerous, I have been there countless times in 2013-14 and it was always an interesting but not dangerous experience
Yes, we have that building in Riga, I have gone by it a couple of times. It seems gloomy and boring. There are so many other beautiful buildings here 👍😊 I didn't know about these buildings. I always will remember that building in "Nochnoi dozor" where Zhanna Friske drove a car on it 😃 I like that building 👍
American and Soviet skyscrapers were both built with exploited labor under terrible conditions, just the capitalists kept up the pretense of paying their workers
@@MTsteelMT my grand father was one of the workers who built the empire state building and he has a big land and house now, so I don't know what you're talking about.
@@MTsteelMT bullshit. The USSR was well-known for better and humane working conditions... or how do you explain, that in the USSR 8 hours per day was normal, whereas im Western countries, workers had to work for more than 12 hours.... Do not invent anything... Btw, when capitlaism in Russia arrived in the 90s, people did not get payed for many months and if they got payed, then they only got payed with Vodka....
Honestly I am actually really enjoying these episodes where you show the good sides of Russia and tell a little history too. It’s also good that you mention some areas to avoid too 👍
#5 I live within walking distance of. I've heard that one of our ex-ministers (Shuvalov I think is his last name) owns an entire floor in that building.
In Poland our tallest tower until recently was built in the Stalin’s seven sister design and was gifted by Stalin, everyone in Warsaw hates it with a handful wanting it to be tore down, regardless of its practical use
I hope you don't because you will just replace it with an modernist glass building that looks the same as all the other modernist glass buildings. At least it's unique. Also let's not forget how much it would cost to tear it down, probably millions of Euros
if you ever get to move into that swanky Soviet Style apartment, got no soviet car but can lend you a Ural... wait, the Hotel Leningradskaya, one of the 7 Sisters, is a Hilton? What has my country done to yours? Next thing you know there will be Burger Kings, KFCs, McDonald's and "Subways" everywhere and a Coke bottle on every table... Yeah, I know, been there, it already happened...
Quite fun in Beijing as well. The center place, the forbidden City with a huge Mao Picture. Hall of the People with a huge flag of the Chinese Communist Party and 2 other commie building. Then you turn around to see the Golden MacDo Arches. The MacDo isn’t even at the square. But they built the arches so haigh, that you have to see it from the square. Then again, as much as i dislike MacDo, still better than Communism.
This was great. I had never heard of the Seven Sisters. Imagine if Vlady hopped out of one of those Benz lol "What's up man?" That would've been crazy timing.
Moscow is massive, the metro is definitely the way to get around, was stuck in traffic for 3 hours from the airport to the St Petersburg high-speed train station.
Roman, Mr Bald will be proud of your “Soviet “ building tour , and to know that you found a rusty old rusty soviet car ! 😎 You do have good content on your channel ! Thank you !
These buildings kinda remind me of the Parliament Building in London. Very impressive. We don’t make buildings like this anymore. Love this format as well.
One thing that definitely stood out when I visited Russia a couple of years ago were the MASSIVE buildings...and also how massively ugly they were. Good stuff--great video.
In Moscow, 8 Stalinist towers were to be built. The place where the foundation of the 8th tower was built is now Zaryadye Park. But the 8th Stalin Tower was still built in Warsaw in 1952-1955. It was a gift to the Polish people.
