Monday 23 April 2012

by the river








Radisson Royal Hotel (Hotel Ukraina)




Radisson Royal Hotel , built in 1953 as Hotel Ukraina by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, is the second tallest of the seven sisters (198m, with 34 stories). Until 1976 it was the tallest hotel in the world. The hotel reopened on April 2010 after a 3 years renovation as the Radisson Royal Hotel.