Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow — Hotel in Dorogomilovo District

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Hotel Ukraina is a five-star luxury hotel in the city centre of Moscow, on a bend of the Moskva River. It is also branded and marketed as the Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow. One of the "Seven Sisters", Hotel Ukraina stands 198 metres (649 ft) tall, and is the tallest hotel in Russia, the tallest hotel in Europe, and the 52nd-tallest hotel in the world. It is a Radisson Collection hotel, managed by the Rezidor Hotel Group.

Hotel Ukraina was commissioned by Joseph Stalin.[5] It was designed by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (the leading Soviet expert on steel-framed highrise construction), and is the second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era "seven sisters" (198 m (650 ft), with 34 stories). It was the tallest hotel in the world from the time of its construction until the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel opened in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1976. Construction on the low river bank meant that the builders had to dig well below the water level. This was enabled by an ingenious water retention system, using a perimeter of needle pumps driven deep into the ground.

History Edit Domestic architects began to actively discuss the possibility of building high-rise buildings in Moscow after the 1917 revolution. Very shortly thereafter, there were many interesting projects; for example, the skyscraper project of the Supreme Economic Council building on the Lubyanka Square, designed by Vladimir Krinsky in 1923.[6] In the same year, the Vesnin brothers proposed a project for the Palace of Labor, whose high-rise building was a tower 132 meters high.[7]

The government supported the desires of architects to rebuild the capital of the Soviet Union. In 1940, architect Dmitry Chechulin published a draft of a 24-story public building on the Dorogomilovsky Bend of the Moscow River - the hotel "Ukraine" subsequently appeared at this place. The sketches were published in Issues 11–14 of the magazine Construction of Moscow. All the preparatory work on this project progressed very slowly, and with the start of World War II, work was completely frozen.[8]

High-rise project Edit On January 13, 1947, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), Joseph Stalin, signed the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the Construction of High-Rise Buildings in Moscow". Clause 4 stated that a 26-story building with a hotel and residences was to be built on the Leningradskoye Highway near the Dynamo Stadium. [9]

Mordvinov, as a representative of the Committee on Architectural Affairs, examined the project and submitted the construction plan to the government for approval. Construction work was transferred to the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprises. The design of the hotel was entrusted to architects Arkady Mordvinov, Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky and chief designer Pavel Krasilnikov.

In the future, the government decided to transfer the construction to the Dorogomilovskaya settlement, which was built up with barracks and wooden houses. This was due to the desire to create a high-rise which would dominate the intersection of the Moskva River embankment and a promising major highway, Kutuzov Avenue. The designers took into account not only the location of the roads, a pier for the river fleet was also created near the hotel.[10]

Stalinist skyscrapers of the same time were not built in a separate area; they were distributed mainly in the historical center of the capital. New high-rises should serve as architectural dominants of the capital. Church belltowers and domes performed a similar role in pre-revolutionary Moscow. The chief architect of Moscow, Dmitry Chechulin, also took into account that future skyscrapers could “overlap” with each other.[11]

Construction Edit Like all skyscrapers built in the Stalinist era, the first stone of the hotel was solemnly laid on September 7, 1947, on the day of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, but work did not actually begin until 1953. The construction of high-rise buildings in Moscow was complicated by three...

It’s not a part of the Radisson hotel group, it’s a typical Russian hotel that stuck somewhere between USSR times and 90th. However, if you want to have such kind of experience, it might be a good option of getting to know rich babes, stupid rules and unfriendly stuff.

There is no possibility of keeping and using several times your towels or linen if you want to minimize the water consumption. All the other hotels of this group I’ve visited have this option.

It becomes even more ridiculous when they try to look posh and have room service 2 a day. I checked in at 4pm, washed my hands and left. Coming back at 6pm I found a new fresh towel instead of previously used just for 1 time.

Security is a total disaster. Obviously they have strict rules, which they have to follow, even when those rules make no sense. We stuck for 30 minutes underground the Congress center because we were not allowed to carry bags with the event promo material through the main entrance. However we could not do the same through the staff entrance as earlier that day (conference lasted for 3 days) we entered through the main entrance and did not have any record through the staff one. It took a lot of time to call the main security chief and only with our passport data collection we were allowed to leave.

Registration desk is a kingdom of robot ladies who react only on duck faced chicks or brutally looking men with a lot of gold jewelry. I spent 10 minutes trying to ask about check out time but was totally neglected in favor of reach looking people.

The funniest thing is how they try to hide red caviar during the breakfast. Normally in other hotels it is placed next to the pancakes. Here not. Hint, if you search in the furthest corner of the egg station, you’ll find the pot 😜

So all in all this place might have been good if it was not pretending to be a super luxury one. As obviously it’s expensive just for the sake of...

I would like to share my experience with the ugly tone and Islamophobic and disrespectful attitude we experienced in an international hotel like Radisson.

While we were washing our faces and arms in the lobby restroom of the hotel, a security guard came and said something in Russian. We couldn't communicate because he didn't speak English, so he called his friend, a security chief named Dimitry. Dimitry told us that the Radisson Collection Hotel was a Russian hotel and that we "couldn't shower" here. He said that we couldn't do Islamic activities here. When we asked him if there was a prayer room, he said we had to go to church. When we told him that this was an international hotel, he repeated that it was a Russian hotel and that we had to follow the rules. When we asked how we knew that there was no sign on the restroom, he said that we should know for ourselves and that we were not allowed to do Islamic activities and that if we wanted to pray, we had to go to another country and not come to Russia. We told him that his tone was rude and that he was trying to scare us, but that wouldn't work and that we should call the hotel manager. The manager who came didn't find Dimitry's statement that "this is a Russian hotel" correct and agreed that it was an international hotel. I found Dimitry's Islamophobic and anachronistic approach unbecoming of a Raddison employee. I have stayed in many Radisson hotels around the world but I have never encountered such Islamophobic approach and bad attitude. Dimitry does not know that Radisson is an international hotel and that he cannot attribute his personal opinions to the hotel. Hotel management definitely needs to...