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Peking Hotel

Coordinates: 55°46′07″N 37°35′38″E / 55.7687°N 37.5940°E / 55.7687; 37.5940
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The Peking Hotel (Russian: гостиница Пекин) is a building in Moscow which houses a four-star hotel and an office complex.

History

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The building, which was designed in the Stalinist classicism style, was constructed between 1939 and 1955. It is located in the city center at the intersection of the Garden Ring and Tverskaya Street. Designed by Soviet architect Dmitry Chechulin[1], the hotel was originally intended to commemorate Sino-Soviet friendship, but by the time it was completed, the relationship between two nations had gone cold.[2]

Peking Hotel, which is owned by Sistema, is located at Bol'shaya Sadovaya Ulitsa, 5 in Moscow. Oleg Kuznetsov (Олег Кузнецов) was the hotel administrator from 2002 to 2016.[3]

In 2011, it was announced that the hotel would be renovated as a luxury hotel and would reopen in 2017, managed by Fairmont Hotels as the Fairmont Pekin Moscow.[4] The renovation and rebranding never happened, however.

In 2020 reconstruction took place: the sculptures decorating the facade of the building, the panels and the spire were restored.[5]

See also

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  • Moscow Restaurant – Soviet restaurant built in Beijing as part of the same project

References

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  1. ^ Богданова, Ксения (2021-06-16). "ГК «Галс» объявила о завершении сделки по продаже гостиницы «Пекин»". msk.kp.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  2. ^ Li, Yan (2014). "Building Friendship: Soviet Influence, Socialist Modernity, and Chinese Cityscape in the 1950s". Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies. 2 (3): 48–67.
  3. ^ Кириленко, Анастасия (2 April 2019). "On the death of Tamm: Solntsevskaya gang's ties to FSB and United Russia". The Insider. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Fairmont Hotels is to Enter the Market in Russia".
  5. ^ "Гостиницу «Пекин» сделают пятизвездочной? Отель в центре Москвы отправят на масштабную реконструкцию". МСК1.ру (in Russian). 2024-07-30. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
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55°46′07″N 37°35′38″E / 55.7687°N 37.5940°E / 55.7687; 37.5940