State Kremlin Palace
The State Kremlin Palace ( Russian Государственный Кремлёвский Дворец ) is an event building in the Moscow Kremlin . It was built in 1961, making it the youngest building on the Kremlin site. The building was designed by the architects Mikhail Posochin , Aschot Mndojantsch , Evgeni Stamo , Pawel Schteller , Nikolai Shchepetilnikow and the engineers G. Lwow, A. Kondratjew, S. Shkolnikow and T. Melik-Arakeljan.
The State Kremlin Palace should not be confused with the Great Kremlin Palace , completed in 1849 , which once served as the tsar's residence.
general description
The building is located in the immediate vicinity of the Trinity Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, where one of the two visitor entrances to the fortress is also located. If you enter the Kremlin through this entrance, the State Kremlin Palace is the first building you will notice on the right.
The main part of the building, which is 27 meters high, has a simple, rectangular shape; the façades were mainly designed using glass and white marble, which, on a superficial view, can hardly be distinguished from concrete . Above the main entrance, which is directly opposite the south facade of the former arsenal , a gold-plated model of the Russian state coat of arms can be seen, which replaced the state coat of arms of the Soviet Union at this point in the early 1990s .
Inside, the State Kremlin Palace consists of a good 800 rooms, with a considerable part of the interior space being taken up by the main hall on the upper floor, which can accommodate up to 6000 people. Today this hall with its 450 m² stage is used as a venue for concerts and other performances. The festival hall is also located above the concert hall and can accommodate up to 4,500 people at the same time. The basement rooms of the palace, in which there are cloakrooms and service rooms, are spread over several floors with a total height of 16 meters.
history
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The State Kremlin Palace was built between 1960–61. In order to gain the building site, a building of the armory that was erected in 1809 and several service and residential buildings for the military built in the 19th century were demolished. The State Kremlin Palace was originally called the Kremlin Congress Palace ( Кремлёвский Дворец Съездов ), as it was designed primarily for holding CPSU party congresses , which had previously been held in the central building of the Great Kremlin Palace . The new Congress Palace was completed in October 1961, in time for the beginning of the XXII. CPSU party congress. The main architect of the building was Mikhail Possochin , who is known for several major development projects in Moscow in the second half of the 20th century (including the high-rise on Kudrinskaya Square and the Olimpijski sports complex ).
As early as the Soviet times, concerts and celebrations were held in the Congress Palace in addition to political meetings. Above all, it is known that the stage was used for a long time for ballet performances by the Bolshoi Theater and that a large children's Christmas party ("Jolka Festival") took place there every year for the New Year .
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the CPSU, the original purpose of the Congress Palace ceased to exist. Shortly thereafter, it was renamed the State Kremlin Palace and has only been used for events since then. In addition to celebrations, conferences and exhibitions, the State Kremlin Palace has recently served as a venue for several world chess championships , but mainly as a stage for particularly popular concerts. Among the internationally known artists who performed in the State Kremlin Palace are, for example, Patricia Kaas , Elton John , Tina Turner , Sting , Bryan Adams , Ray Charles , Chris Rea , the Scorpions and Eric Clapton . Thomas Anders appeared ten times with and without Modern Talking until 2009, more often than any other pop artist.
Web links
- State Kremlin Palace. In: Structurae
- Official website of the State Kremlin Palace (Russian / English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Between Stalin and Glasnost. Soviet architecture 1960–1990 . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938666-16-6 , pp. 58 .
- ↑ Ann-Dorit Boy: Modern Talking - The Russians Like It Different , Spiegel Online, April 24, 2009
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 5.2 " N , 37 ° 36 ′ 56.4" E