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This building has dominated Kaliningrad for decades. The “House of the Soviets” with its 21 floors, which by its shape resembles the head of a robot. But the building will soon be demolished, regional governor Anton Alichanov announced.
The house was never completed because the money to build it ran out in 1985. It has remained empty since then and has also been classified as structurally faulty. However, it has become one of the most famous monuments in the city.
The robot head received special attention two years ago when a fan zone was set up for the World Cup in a huge square next to it.
The building’s protruding covered balconies, which resemble two eyes and a mouth, have led to its nickname, “The Buried Robot,” a robot buried up to his head in the earth.
Governor Anton Alichanov said demolition is expected to begin early next year and officials are discussing the possibility of providing fragments of it as souvenirs, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported. Kaliningrad is the administrative center of the Russian exclave of the same name, which is located between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.
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