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Vyborg Railway Station

Vyborg Railway Station (Russian: ста́нция Вы́борг; Finnish: Viipurin rautatieasema) is a railway station located in the town of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

The original station building was built in 1913 but was destroyed in the Continuation War. The current station building was built in Soviet times.

 

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Federation Tower

The Federation Tower (Russian: Башня «Федерация») is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Construction of the towers began in 2003. In December 2009, the taller East Tower suffered a height reduction from 360.4 m (1,182 ft) to 242.4 m (795 ft), the same height as the West Tower.

The complex, designed by the German firm NPS Tchoban Voss, is being developed by Mirax Construction and is owned by the Mirax Group. The construction company for the East Tower is the China State Construction Engineering Corporation, while the construction company for the West Tower is Turkish Ant Yapi. The Italian Company Busi Impianti SpA is the contractor for the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Systems of the East Tower. The curtain wall for both towers was designed by the New York office of Thornton Tomasetti under the direction of Jean-Pierre Kocher AIA.

 

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Triumph Palace

Triumph-Palace (Russian: Триу́мф-Пала́с, transliterated as Triumf Palas) is the name of an apartment building in Moscow. It is sometimes called the Eighth Sister because it is similar in appearance to the Seven Sisters skyscrapers built in Moscow by Joseph Stalin through the 1950s. Construction began in 2001.

The 57-story building, containing about 1,000 luxury apartments, was topped out on 20 December 2003, making it Europe’s tallest building at 264.1 metres (866 ft) until the inauguration in 2007 of Moscow’s 268 metre Naberezhnaya Tower block C.

 

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