Triumph Palace (russian: Триу́мф-Пала́с,

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as ''Triumf Palas'') is the tallest

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Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

and all of Europe. It is sometimes called the

Eighth Sister The Eighth Sister is the unbuilt project for a skyscraper in Zaryadye, Moscow. It would have been the eighth sister to the group of Stalinist skyscrapers known as Seven Sisters. The architect was Dmitry Chechulin. Original 1947 plans included an e ...

because it is similar in appearance to the Seven Sisters''Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures'', Routledge, 2009, se
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through the 1950s. Construction began in 2001 and was completed in 2006. The 57-

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building, containing about 1,000 luxury apartments , was topped out on 20 December 2003, making it Europe's and Russia's tallest skyscraper at until the inauguration in 2007 of Moscow's 268-metre

Naberezhnaya Tower Naberezhnaya Tower ( rus, Башня на Hабережной, r=Bashnya na Naberezhnoy, literally means Tower on the Embankment) is an office complex composed of two skyscrapers and a high-rise located on plot 10 in the Moscow International Bu ...

block C. Triumph Palace is featured in detail in the 2009

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series '' Vertical City'' (series 1, episode 8).

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* {{Buildings in Europe timeline Apartment buildings Residential skyscrapers in Moscow Buildings and structures completed in 2006

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