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House of Soviets

former building in Kaliningrad, Russia
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Summary

House of Soviets is an office building[1]. It ranks in the top 0.56% of office building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,625 views/month, #2 of 354).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kaliningrad[3]
  • Country: Russia[4], Soviet Union[5]
  • Instance of: unfinished building[6], destroyed building or structure[7]
  • Architect: Lev Valentinovich Misozhnikov[8]
  • Architectural style: Soviet Modernist architecture[9], brutalist architecture[10]
  • Commons category: Dom Sovetov, Kaliningrad[11]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2024[12]
  • Structure replaces: Königsberg Castle[13]
  • Native label: Дом Советов[14]
  • Different from: House of Soviets[15]
  • Subject has role: white elephant[16]
  • State of conservation: demolished or destroyed[17]

Why It Matters

House of Soviets has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Russia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . SOSBrutalism. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . SOSBrutalism. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . reddit.com. reddit.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . SOSBrutalism. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Arch2bot bot · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → office building, unfinished building, destroyed building or structure
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +2024-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Dissolved → —
    Architect → Lev Valentinovich Misozhnikov
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ #sosbrutalism id: 15891611, Add archINFORM reference"
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