The famous Moscow Stalinist skyscraper, Moscow state University building, the main building of South Ural state University in Chelyabinsk. These monumental structures were executed with taste in the domestic version of art Deco.



Curiously, that in the modern the form of the building University built recently - in 2003, although incapable impression that "always so and was" (and for me, a visitor, differently and could not be!). Before the reconstruction of the home, now a high-rise, building 1956 the building had only seven stories. However, architects and builders managed to carry out a very harmonious reconstruction and not just not to spoil, but significantly improve the initial construction, to make an impressive building - a Palace of knowledge. The facade materials, restraint in details, absence of superfluous decor and stucco molding, following certain traditions of the Soviet Neoclassicism of the early 50s please.

In appearance, the building resembles the image Of the main building of the Moscow state University on Vorobyovy Gory

During the great Patriotic war enterprises from different cities of the European part of the USSR were evacuated to Chelyabinsk, including plants from Leningrad, Stalingrad and Kharkov, which formed the basis of the Tankograd. The training of engineers to work on the production of led evacuated in August 1942 the Stalingrad mechanical Institute, in October of the same year, the Institute began accepting graduate students

In the early 2000s was the largest in the number of students at the University of Russia