https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1503946/Stalins-grand-hotel-sells-for-59m.html Stalin's grand hotel sells for £59m], The Daily Telegraph, 25 November 2005 It was designed by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky (the leading Soviet expert on steel-framed highrise construction), and is the second tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era "seven sisters" ( 198 meters , with 34 stories).