Moscow condo buildings
“Where People Live and Work” is the third part of our photo series “Night Drive through Moscow”. These photographs are the result of my four hour drive through Moscow on January 6, 2007. The first part, “Where Tourists Go” showed places popular with tourists like the Kremlin and Moscow’s cathedrals. The second part, “View from a Car Window” showed the streets of Moscow at night, casinos, and advertisements.
Please click on the extended post link to see photos of Moscow’s condominiums and office buildings, places where Muscovites live and work every day. There are many more neighborhoods and business districts in Moscow than are depicted in this photo post, but again, these are the results from a quick spin around the south-western part of the city.
Enjoy the pictures, and please allow some time for the extended post to load due to the large number of photos.
Condos (scroll down for office buildings and night views)
Condos
Condos
Leninsky Prospekt freeway by a neighborhood of condo buildings
Outside of a condo building
Condos
Condos
Yukos gas station
Condos
A government building on the left, with condos on the right
Condos
Construction of new condo buildings
Construction of the Federation Tower, part of the new business district Moscow-City
Old condos building on the right, Federation Tower construction on the left
An office building entrance
Hotel Ukraine - the hotel is located across the Moscow River from the Russian White House and serves as lodging and office space
Office building
Parking by an office building
Parking garage
Car wash in parking garage
Entrance to office cafeteria
Inside of a cafeteria
Office receptionist
Office hallway
Office elevator
Office lobby
Another lobby
Another lobby with an employee
Office hallway
Small conference room
Flower shop inside of an office building
New Moscow State University library on Lomonosovsky Prospekt
An office building of the Poisk Holding Company
Buildings in downtown
Office buildings
Hotel Red Hills on the right and the House of Music on the left
Bank of Russia building
Office building
"Happy New Year" banner on an office building in downtown Moscow
An office building in downtown Moscow with a Gazprom sign on top
A nice building in downtown Moscow
A skyscraper from the Stalin era, one of the "Seven Sisters" built between 1947 and 1952
Entrance to an office building
An office building
An office building
Yuri Mamchur (on the right) with college friend Sergei Sirotenko at a restaurant
Sunrise over Moscow suburbs the morning after the photo drive
All of these photos were taken with Nikon Coolpix L1 digital camera without a tripod. Reference to Russia Blog required when photos reposted.
UPDATE: upon our reader's request:
Dear Pietari,
Here are some photos of Mitino. Butovo was hard to find, but the photos in the main post in the beginning are taken 2 miles away from Butovo!
Enjoy,
Yuri
Comments
Very surprised to see so much modern architecture. When I hear about these million dollar condos in Moscow, now I will understand what they look like!
I was struck also by how similar the Russian office pictures were to an ordinary European office, or their American counterparts. For some reason I was expecting something out of a 70s technicolor movie; ashtrays and cigarette smoke throughout.
Posted by: Dimitroslav | January 28, 2007 3:31 AM
Any chance that you could post Google Earth links (.kmz) so we can see the route?
Cheers.
Posted by: Aleks | January 28, 2007 11:38 AM
Yury. Tell me to a Russian patriot from St.Pete (Pietari in Finnish) with the Swedish passport,- why don't you put pictures of the real life?
I don't really like the surburbes of the city, of any city.... (Now I live in the Vassilievsky Island in St.Pete) cause sometimes it's look SO scary. I do not love/like Luzhkov like other Moscovites do. But I consider he's a beacon for the other governors of Russia in the business of devoloping city. I was in Moscow in the summer and I really saw the program on resettlement of the population from old "KhryschevkaS" in a new, well constructed 16-floors buildings. So happens, that my army friends lived in "KhryschevkaS", but three years ago one my Army friend from Taganka (Trybnikova ylitsa) has moved to the new house in the same street (just in front of old house!). This summer other friend from Izmailovo (14-ya Parkovaya) has moved also in the new house-IN the SAME STREET In front of the old house! They (constractors) have even saved the old trees! You know,- how it's important for us to live in the same area,- area of the childhood!
I think I'd like to see such a changes. I don't give a shazen where "richy" live, where they work, where they park their "mercedeses". I don't want to see it.
I want to see the changes in the REAL LIFE.
P.S. Why do you not publish photos from Butovo and Mitino? I would like to know why there are so many jokes about these Moscow outscrits?????.
Posted by: Pietari | January 29, 2007 3:44 AM
Yury. Tell me to a Russian patriot from St.Pete (Pietari in Finnish) with the Swedish passport,- why don't you put pictures of the real life?
I don't really like the surburbes of the city, of any city.... (Now I live in the Vassilievsky Island in St.Pete) cause sometimes it's look SO scary. I do not love/like Luzhkov like other Moscovites do. But I consider he's a beacon for the other governors of Russia in the business of devoloping city.
I was in Moscow in the summer and I really saw the program on resettlement of the population from old "KhryschevkaS" in a new, well constructed 16-floors buildings. So happens, that my army friends lived in "KhryschevkaS", but three years ago one my Army friend from Taganka (Trybnikova ylitsa) has moved to the new house in the same street (just in front of old house!). This summer other friend from Izmailovo (14-ya Parkovaya) has moved also in the new house-IN the SAME STREET In front of the old house! They (constractors) have even saved the old trees! You know,- how it's important for us to live in the same area,- area of the childhood!
I think I'd like to see such a changes. I don't give a shazen where "richy" live, where they work, where they park their "mercedeses". I don't want to see it.
I want to see the changes in the REAL LIFE.
P.S. Why do you not publish photos from Butovo and Mitino? I would like to know why there are so many jokes about these Moscow outscrits?????
Posted by: Pietari | January 29, 2007 3:55 AM
Yury. Tell me to a Russian patriot from St.Pete (Pietari in Finnish) with the Swedish passport,- why don't you put pictures of the real life?
I don't really like the surburbes of the city, of any city.... (Now I live in the Vassilievsky Island in St.Pete) cause sometimes it's look SO scary. I do not love/like Luzhkov like other Moscovites do. But I consider he's a beacon for the other governors of Russia in the business of devoloping city. I was in Moscow in the summer and I really saw the program on resettlement of the population from old "KhryschevkaS" in a new, well constructed 16-floors buildings. So happens, that my army friends lived in "KhryschevkaS", but three years ago one my Army friend from Taganka (Trybnikova ylitsa) has moved to the new house in the same street (just in front of old house!). This summer other friend from Izmailovo (14-ya Parkovaya) has moved also in the new house-IN the SAME STREET In front of the old house! They (constractors) have even saved the old trees! You know,- how it's important for us to live in the same area,- area of the childhood!
I think I'd like to see such a changes. I don't give a shazen where "richy" live, where they work, where they park their "mercedeses". I don't want to see it.
I want to see the changes in the REAL LIFE.
P.S. Why do you not publish photos from Butovo and Mitino? I would like to know why there are so many jokes about these Moscow outscrits?????.
Posted by: Pietari | January 29, 2007 9:35 AM
Dear Pietari,
I will try to find the photos of the suburbs you are talking about. However, the first few apartment buildings in my photographs are located only 2 miles north of Butovo. The reason people used to joke about those suburbs – the neighborhoods were only being developed, dirty, cheap and unsafe. Today Mitino, Maryino, Butovo and other “sleeping” neighborhoods are very polished, clean and convenient places to live, with more and more subway stops being built around them. I’ll see if I can get the photos for you. Thank you for your interest and comment!
Yuri
Posted by: Yuri | January 29, 2007 11:41 AM
Yury,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
I'm partly Finnish, but I'm a Russian PATRIOT and want to say that Comrade Stalin was right about the unpopular in Russia "The Winter War".WE WON anyway!!!
I live there (Leningrad) and I want to invite you there to make a good photo-shots, to visit the old "Winter War", "Leningrad Blockade" battlefields. I've a big apartments where you can stay.
P.S. The Mannerheim Line? You'll like to see it yourself.
toyman@mail.ru
Posted by: Pietari | January 30, 2007 6:28 AM
Dear Pietari,
Please see the main post (the bottom) for the Mitino photos.
Enjoy,
Yuri
Posted by: Yuri Mamchur | February 2, 2007 10:46 PM
Dear Pietari.
I am Finn and by the comments you made i understand that you think that Stalin was right to trying to invade Finland? Am i correct?
If so, please dont call yourself partly Finn.
thanks.
Posted by: Jose | February 3, 2007 9:34 AM
This is absurdly unrepresentative of where people work and especially where they live. We're talking about the upper echelon here.
Posted by: Owen | June 14, 2007 11:16 AM
Love the photos
Posted by: TREAR | March 23, 2008 7:25 PM