The building which is about 400 meters long, 50 meters high with nine storeys, took almost two decades to complete. Because of its size and notoriety it has many nicknames. Muscovites endearingly call it the House-Boat, the Titanic, the House of the Nuclear Scientists, the House of Bachelors, the House of the Tula (after the street) or even the Recumbent Skyscraper. Officially it is the Big Tula Street Building #2. The people also nicknamed it the "Big House" or "Long House" because of its 50-meter height and half a kilometre in length.
The building has nine entrances and nearly 1,000 apartments. Bachelors were given one-bedroom apartments ("House of Bachelors"). Several materials were used for construction; stone, concrete slabs and beams as well as brickwork.
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