House on the Embankment

Yakimanka District, Russia

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The House on the Embankment is a block-wide residential building on the banks of the Moskva River in downtown Moscow, designed by architect Boris Iofan and completed in 1931. A landmark example of Constructivist architecture, it stands between Bersenevskaya Embankment and Serafimovicha Street in the Yakimanka District. Until 1952, it was Moscow's tallest residential structure. The building gained historical prominence as the preferred residence of the Soviet elite, many of whom were arrested and executed during Stalin's Great Purge. It is protected as a regional cultural heritage site in Russia.