BUILDING OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE

In the early 1930s, a competition was held for the design of the Intourist Hotel, but the competition was abandoned, and instead, the Building of the Council of Labor and Defense was built on the site with design entrusted to Arkady Yahovlevich. The STO building would help form a closed square by Georgievsky Lane and include the House of Unions. The planned architecture of the house would be similar to the new image of Moscow, according to the the general plan of 1935. However, S.E. Chernyshev, the chief architect of Moscow, believed that such a solution would create the effect of a narrow gorge. Two years after the building was constructed, the Council of Labor and Defense was abolished. Currently, the building is listed as the State Duma of the Russian Federation.