House of Soviets (Saint Petersburg)

The House of Soviets (Russian: Дом Советов, Dom Sovetov) is an office building built in Stalinist style in the late 1930s in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad).

The construction was completed just before the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II, and the building was never used for the intended purpose.

Surviving reminders of that stronghold are small bunkers built from a reinforced concrete which still stand at several corners of the House of Soviets.

Later, the building housed the Soviet research institute which focused on the design of electronic components for military objects.

During a construction of the subway station Moskovskaya in 1970, the square was remodelled and upgraded with a massive monument to Vladimir Lenin designed by Mikhail Anikushin.