The former Hotel Ukraina was known as one of the ‘Seven Sisters’, an iconic set of skyscrapers built under Stalin between 1947 and 1953 to compete against the structures in other cities around the world.
With a height of 206 meters and a total surface of more than 100,000 square meters, the hotel is situated on the banks of the Moskva River and is close to Red Square in the commercial center of Moscow.
The hotel’s design features an intricate gothic style and has a ‘wedding-cake’ like construction and spires, symbolizing Soviet power and achievement. The renovation project has seen upgrades to 506 rooms with an additional 36 suites and apartments.
The hotel houses six restaurants and bars ranging from Japanese to Iranian, Italian to Russian and a floating yacht restaurant that runs a two-hour trip along the river. It also includes some 1,200 original pieces for art lovers with paintings by Vasily Polenov, Julius Klever, Alexander Deineka, Dmitry Nalbandian, Max Birstein, Michael Suzdal’tsev, Nicholas Romadin and Mikhail Kupriyanov.
