White House (Moscow)
The White House ( Russian Белый Дом , Bely Dom ) in Moscow is the government building of the Russian Federation . From 1990 to 1993 it was the seat of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federative Soviet Republic , then the Russian Federation. It has housed the cabinet since 1994. The building was completed in 1981 according to plans by the architects Dmitri Chechulin and Pavel Schteller .
During the August coup of 1991 tried one of conservative communists existing "State Emergency Committee" ( Государственный Комитет по Чрезвычайному Положению the power of the then Soviet President) Mikhail Gorbachev to take over. An attempted storming of the White House by the putschists failed, however, also because of the strong resistance of the Moscow population.
Until the constitutional crisis of September / October 1993 , the White House was the seat of the Supreme Soviet and the People's Deputies Congress. The cause of the crisis was the illegal dissolution of parliament by President Boris Yeltsin . This dispute between the executive and legislative branches developed into an armed conflict within a few days, in which tanks of the armed forces loyal to Yeltsin fired several shots at the building, severely damaging it.
After the conflict was over, a new parliament was elected in 1994, which since then has again carried the old tsarist name of the State Duma and resides in a different building (near the Kremlin , between Manege Square and the Bolshoi Theater ). Today the Russian government is based in the building.
Web links
- Official Website of the Russian Government (Russian)
- Москва невоплощенная / Unrealized Moscow ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), plans of the Aeroflot building (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Between Stalin and Glasnost. Soviet architecture 1960–1990 . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938666-16-6 , pp. 262 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 17.6 " N , 37 ° 34 ′ 22.8" E