It was also the first foreign mission to be built in the Soviet capital of Moscow[2] and it remains one of the few functionalist buildings in the city.

The building’s large balcony is called "Paasikiven komentosilta"; "The command bridge of Paasikivi".

According to legend, the furniture originates from the minister-secretary of state’s residence during the Grand Duchy of Finland.

[2] There were allotments, as well as chickens and pigs, in the embassy yard from the late 1940s until the 1960s, when apartments for the staff began to be rented from elsewhere in the city.

[2] The construction for the additional building for the embassy began once the Soviet Union dissolved and was completed in 1996.