2 . S T A T E
K R E M L I N
P A L A C E
КРЕМЛЬ
Located in the heart of the capital of Russia - in the ancient
Moscow Kremlin , the State Kremlin Palace was built in 1961
for 16 months - in the shortest time possible - with the active
support of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev , the First Secretary
of the CPSU Central Committee . The selection of a site for
the construction of the Palace was a particularly important
task . The location of this monumental building was to
correspond to its social and political role . The construction
of the Palace on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin - a
place sacred to the Russian people , most fully met these
high requirements . The Moscow Kremlin is not only an
outstanding historical and architectural monument of the
past , but , above all , the center of our capital , the center of
the country ' s highest authorities . It was here that it was
decided to implement the idea of building the Palace . A
closed competition for the creation of a building project has
begun . Among the twelve proposed options for the project ,
the winner and , subsequently , the head of the team of
architects was Mikhail Vasilyevich Posokhin . This outstanding
architect , awarded for the project of the Kremlin Palace of
the Lenin Prize , was at that time the chief architect of
Moscow and the head of the Main Architectural and Planning
Directorate of the city .
In the original version , the hall was designed for 4000 seats .
In the future , the scale of the Kremlin Palace , it was decided
to increase . The indirect " culprits " of this were Chinese
architects . In 1959 in China , the formation of the People ' s
Republic of China was celebrated , and therefore , it was
decided to build ten large buildings in Beijing , among which
the Congress Palace was also planned , designed for 10 , 000
seats with a huge banquet hall . N . S . Khrushchev , who was
present at the celebrations , was struck by this building and
told M . V . Posokhin about it .
By the summer of 1961 , the huge building of the Kremlin
Palace was constructed and finished on the outside with
white Ural marble , golden anodized aluminum and glass , and
inside - with red Carbach granite , Koelga marble and
patterned Baku tuff . In the decoration of the walls and
parquet flooring were used ash , oak , beech , Pacific walnut
and hornbeam .