[1][2] The borough voted on 8 March 2022 to change the formal address of the Russian embassy to Ukraine Square.

After the conclusion of World War II, the building was seized by the Norwegian government and made available for the Soviet Union.

The complex of buildings of the Russian Embassy is located at Ukraine Square on an area of 11.5 hectares and since 1946, it is on an indefinite rent.

[4] One of the buildings, a mansion with an area of 900 m2, was designed in the middle of the 19th century by the famous German architect Wilhelm von Hanno, commissioned by the State General and Marshal of the royal court Frederic Neser.

In 1885, the house was bought by Norwegian W. E. Kier, one of the five sons of a wealthy timber merchant H. Kiera, and was inherited for 40 years.