The House on the Embankment (Russian: Дом на набережной) is a block-wide apartment building on the banks of the Moskva River on Balchug in downtown Moscow, Russia.

In 1927, a commission decided that a building would be constructed in the Bersenevka neighborhood, opposite the Kremlin, which had been occupied by the Wine and Salt Court, an old distillery and excise warehouse.

The building also featured a sports hall, tennis court, kindergarten, library, laundrette and a kitchen from which meals could be ordered for collection.

Many residents and their families were detained during the Great Purge under Stalin in the late 1930s; to the extent that the building was dryly referred to as "The House of Preliminary Detention".

[6] Professor Yuri Slezkine published in 2017 The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press) which records the fates of about eighty tenants and their families.

[7][8] He notes that some of the apartments in the Government Building held up to five successive sets of occupants between 1937 and 1940, as senior officials were arrested for execution or imprisonment.

Apart from the descendants of the former Soviet elite, the building is also home to pop stars, film producers, cultural figures and expats.

In 1998, by a resolution of the Moscow Government, it was given the status of a municipal museum of local history, and Olga Trifonova, the widow of the writer Yury Trifonov, became its director.