Red Gate Building

However, by 1951, when the works were completed, a new union agency Mintransstroi existed and it got the offices in the central block of the skyscraper.

[4] All flats had refrigerators, built-in-furniture and sinks with a crusher to destroy large waste in the kitchens.

For this purpose, outdoor air was filtered and passed through a humidification system before reaching a temperature of +15 °C.

The construction of the tower was complicated by its location near the Moscow Metro tunnels and the Krasnye Vorota station.

Dushkin built a second entrance to the station into the ground floor of the tower, which opened on 31 July 1954.