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Seven Sisters on a map and side by side for comparison.
Seven Sisters on a map and side by side for comparison.
Photo of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. A view of it from the river portraying its sheer grandeur.
Photo of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. A view of it from the river portraying its sheer grandeur.
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. This was Stalin's large project post-WW2 to express the dominance of communism to the world.
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. This was Stalin's large project post-WW2 to express the dominance of communism to the world.
The interior of a Metro station in Komsomolskaya Square next to Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky train stations.
The interior of a Metro station in Komsomolskaya Square next to Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky train stations.
This is a 1952 aerial shot of Charles River Esplanade, which shows the esplanade with a permanent, and larger shell: the Hatch Memorial Shell built in 1941, and the same oval we see in the 1938 aerial shot. Storrow Drive has been extended farther…
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