Kremlin Presidium
| Kremlin Presidium | |
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| Административный корпус Кремля №14 | |
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| Alternative names | Building 14 |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Neoclassical |
| Coordinates | 55°45′8.05″N 37°37′12.61″E / 55.7522361°N 37.6201694°E |
| Current tenants | Demolished |
| Construction started | 1932 |
| Completed | 1934 |
| Demolished | 2015 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Ivan Rerberg |
The Kremlin Presidium (Russian: Административный корпус Кремля), also known as Building 14 (Russian: 14-й корпус), was a building within the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia. Constructed in 1934, until 2011 it housed the Supreme Soviet, the highest legislative body of the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991, and later the offices of the Presidential Administration of Russia. Demolition of the building began in late 2015.
The Kremlin Presidium was located in the northern part of the Kremlin grounds, next to the Kremlin Senate, forming one side of Ivanovskaya Square. The four-story building had three wings opening towards the Senate, connected by a central building which faces the Taynitskaya Garden to the south. The southern facade had a row of Ionic order columns, with a gable roof in the center, reflecting the Neoclassical style of the adjacent Senate building. However, the wing halls were much simpler and less conspicuous. The building had three floors and was painted in the same yellow color as many other administrative buildings within the Moscow Kremlin.
The Presidium stood on the site of Chudov Monastery, founded in 1365 by the Metropolitan Alexius, the Ascension Convent, and Lesser Nicholas Palace. These were among the historic buildings with the grounds of the Kremlin ordered to be destroyed by Joseph Stalin as part of the state atheism campaign, which resulted razing of religious structures from all over Russia. Work on a new administrative building for the Soviet government began almost immediately, and Ivan Rerberg, a prominent Moscow architect who had designed Kiyevsky Rail Terminal was assigned to the task.
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