Sokos Hotel Viru

It was Estonia's first high-rise building[1] and is connected to the Viru Keskus shopping center.

The Hotel Viru was built by Intourist, the government tourist monopoly of the Soviet Union.

However, a fire broke out on the 10th floor of the project in December 1969, and the Finnish company went bankrupt as a result.

The KGB left the hotel just before Estonia became independent in August 1991, but the secret rooms weren't found until 1994.

[6] In 2003, the hotel was sold to the S Group, a Finnish retailing cooperative organization.