Aug 10, 2004 · The mayor of Moscow has ordered the demolition of the Rossiya (Russia) Hotel, a giant concrete box built beside the Kremlin in Soviet times. The hotel, the world's biggest when it was built in...

The Rossiya Hotel (Russian: Гостиница «Россия», romanized: Gostinitsa "Rossiya") was a hotel in Moscow and was the largest hotel in the world from 1967 to 1980. [1] Until its closure in 2006, it remained the second largest hotel in Europe, with 3,182 rooms. [2]

Black marketeers traded banned goods in them, their lobbies swarmed with prostitutes and KGB agents lurked in their rooms, while most Russian citizens were not even allowed into them. Still,...

Jun 17, 2020 · IIRC, all westerners had to stay in that hotel when visiting Moscow during the Soviet era. Imagine the surveillance system! No, there were other hotels as well like the Cosmos Hotel, built for the Olympics. But it‘s true that the Soviet state took great care to separate western from domestic tourists and control every aspect as much as possible.

Aug 7, 2021 · But I cannot honestly urge anything short of "Luxe" class because even the best in Russia is often shockingly bad by our standards-bathrooms without baths, even hotels with no baths, tubs with no hot water, plumbing that is "quaint" or worse, poor cooking, dirty utensils, maddening waits.

Aug 10, 2004 · Moscows mayor has reportedly called for demolition of the hotel, the worlds biggest when it was built in the 1960s in what was once the Russian capitals historic medieval quarter. Sources say a...

My dream vacation is staying in a hotel in Russia sandwiched between two nuclear power plant cooling towers.

If left where they were behind the hotel, they would no longer be there in the morning. Speaking Russian, they made us understand that there were many drunk people about and the bikes weren’t...