Golden brains of wounds. Nobody's "Brains": the famous building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt turned out to be ownerless

The building of the Russian Academy of Sciences is located at the address: , building 32a.

Nearest metro: Leninsky Prospekt.

The building, 22 floors high, is sometimes called the “golden brains”, after the characteristic upper part of the building. Near the building there is an observation deck (near the Moscow River), with a wonderful view of the Moscow River and the city.

How to get there

On foot: exit from the Leninsky Prospekt metro station (the first car from the center). From the exit, move left (towards the Moskva River embankment). You'll go a long way crosswalk and continue straight ahead. Near the embankment you will see the Building of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and if you continue straight ahead, you will come out to the observation deck.

The building of the Russian Academy of Sciences was built in the 1970-80s, according to the design of the architect Yu.P. Platonov, who later became (since 1992) the chief architect Russian Academy Sci. If you look closely at the complex of buildings, you will see that they resemble a druse of crystals.

The building is called "Golden Brains" for the peculiar metal structure on top of the building. Many believe that this is solar panels or a device for studying magnetic waves. In fact, neither one nor the other. This is just a decorative design.

Sky Lounge Restaurant

The main attraction of the building is the view, which is located on the last 22nd floor. Moreover, the cuisine in this restaurant, in our opinion, is very good and original. To get into it, you need to go to the main entrance of the building and you will see the Skylounge sign (on the right) where you need to go.

To get into, after passing security, you take the elevator to the last 22nd floor. occupies the entire 22nd floor. IN summer time You can take a table right on the balcony and enjoy beautiful views of Moscow from a bird's eye view. Especially beautiful views to the Moscow River, to the Moscow City complex, to the main building of Moscow State University. You can walk around the entire perimeter of the floor.

From experience, on Fridays and weekends it is better to book a table in advance.

Sculptures

When you approach the building, you find yourself in an unexpectedly large courtyard. Stop here for a while and look around - here are the original sculptural groups of naked ancient gods (Nida, Neptune and others). There are 6 sculptures in total. Some naked bodies, in our opinion, are made too naturalistically (see images).

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A huge clock is mounted in one wing of the building. For a long time, this clock did not work, since the clock mechanism was installed, but the necessary electronics were not there. We managed to launch the clock in 2017. But now they show the exact time.

Every Muscovite has probably seen the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The 22-story skyscraper adorned Moscow in the early 90s of the last century. This miracle took almost twenty years to build. The decision to build it was made back in 1966. The sketch of the building was made by the outstanding Soviet scientist-engineer in the field of mathematics and mechanics - Mstislav Vsevolodovich Neldysh. Construction of the building began in 1974. Architects - Y. Platonov (director), A. Batyreva, L. Barshch, S. Zakharov, A. Zvezdin; engineer A. Levenshtein; co-authors: A. Timakov, E. Antonov and A. Nikiforov. Architect Yu.P. Platnov later became (since 1992) the chief architect of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 1997 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for the creation of “Golden Brains”. The location for the presidium was chosen very well - on the high bank of the Moscow River. Therefore, it offers a very good view of the city.

1. Mid-December turned out to be unusually frosty in Moscow. The temperature dropped far beyond minus 10 degrees, but this did not stop us; on the contrary, it was best to shoot at night and before sunset, in such weather.

2. The peculiar design on the roof has given rise to more than one myth among people with a rich imagination.

3. Starting with simple myths that this structure is covered with solar panels to supply the building with electricity, ending with the fact that the decorative decoration of the roof is a disguised device for zombifying the population of the capital.

4. But, on the roof of the presidium, the desire to eat each other’s brains did not arise, the will was not suppressed, the aliens were not noticed and there was no connection with space either. The only thing we felt was the wild cold, which is logical, the temperature was already minus twenty and there was wind.

5. At the top of this platform, it was impossible to take photographs with a tripod; apparently she was also very cold and was shaking non-stop.

6. Let’s switch to the views from the roof, because that’s what we climbed here for. CHPP-20.

7. Two chimneys of CHPP-12, each 180 meters high.

8. Pushkinsky Bridge, and behind it the favorite bridge of suicides in Moscow - Krymsky. Fans of the paranormal often write about bad energy and it is this energy that supposedly makes people jump from it, but in fact the reason for suicides from this bridge is quite simple - it’s very easy to climb on it (I’ve been there myself).

9. The main thing higher institution our country - Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.

10. Luzhnetsky Bridge. At the top there is an overpass for cars, and below it is the longest station of the Moscow metro, “Vorobyovy Gory” (282 m).

11. Large sports arena of the Luzhniki Olympic complex. It was from here that the Olympic bear flew away at closing olympic games in 1980. The largest stadium in Russia. They plan to reconstruct it for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. There are rumors circulating online about demolition and building a new stadium instead. I hope these are just rumors. Behind the stadium the landscape “House on Mosfilmovskaya” is spoiled. This house good example that you can not give a damn about any laws and do what you want. In short, the house violated Moscow's height regulations and also significantly increased its area compared to the approved plan. But why not tear down such “beauty”? So the Moscow government has given up on violations. If I were the mayor, I would distribute all the area built over the agreed project to those who are in dire need of housing (veterans, large families etc.) So I send rays of diarrhea to the Don-Stroy Invest company.

12. Sports complex “Druzhba”.

13. Than stronger frost the more effective it is to film a thermal power plant.

14. Once again MSU.

15. The sunset is slowly ending, and my hands and face are numb from the cold. Therefore, we periodically go down a little lower and warm ourselves near the warm walls.

16. Main office OJSC "Sberbank of Russia". The security inside is very unfriendly.

17. Leninsky Prospekt.

18. Evening traffic jams.

19. A white house is visible on the right.

20. “South-West Gate”. According to the plans, both houses form the main entrance to Moscow. They were built in the 40s by the hands of prisoners, among whom was A.I. Solzhenitsyn.

21. Novoandreevsky road and Andreevsky railway bridge.

22. Structures on the roof of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

24. Fragment of the decor of “Golden Brains”. For some reason this design reminds me of the dwarven ruins from the series computer games about Morrowind.

25. Having completely stiffened from the cold, we descend from the roof of the building. Next time we will only go there in the summer, it’s too cold in the winter.

26. Finally, we take a shot of the building and run to warm ourselves up. That's all.

The main building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), the “golden brains” on Leninsky Prospect, has been operated without title documents for the last few years. According to the Kommersant publication, ownership of the property has not been registered, and the property is simply not included in the federal property register. The discovery was made by employees of the Federal Property Management Agency as a result of an inspection that was carried out in connection with the creation Federal agency scientific organizations. As part of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the academy's real estate should be transferred to the department.

Prolonged construction

In fact, the main building of the academy had bad luck from the very beginning. The decision to build a new high-rise building was made back in 1966, but the scientists managed to move much later. The founder of the high-rise concept can be considered the then head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mstislav Keldysh, it was he who completed the first draft drawing of the structure. But the academician commissioned the official design of the building separate structure, State Design and Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The group was led by an architect Yuri Platonov, who later became the head of the entire architectural department of the academy.

The actual construction of the house lasted another 20 years: construction began in 1974, and two parts of the complex were put into operation separately - in 1990 and 1997. The situation was complicated not only by a lack of funding. The builders were hampered by what engineers believed was the wrong choice of location on the hill, the proximity of the Moscow River, and many technological difficulties. The first single-handle taps in Russia appeared in the RAS house and a “smart home” electronics control system was tested, which was subsequently practically not used. In particular, initially special fire-fighting elevators were installed at the academy, which were eventually replaced with regular ones.

The new building of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt. 1990 Photo: RIA Novosti

Decorative finishing

Technically, the 22-story building of the academy is made up of two towers located close together, which contain classrooms and office space. The wide three-story base is divided into four parts, each of which is crowned with its own golden composition. The left one closest to the main entrance is occupied by a cinema and concert hall for 1.5 thousand people; the room is used for scientific meetings. A clock is built into the iron structure here - main symbol Due to the unfinished nature of the building, they had not yet had the opportunity to work. Initially, the mechanism included in the project was assembled, but was never launched - due to the collapse of the USSR, academicians were unable to obtain the missing electronics. In the opposite wing there is a winter garden, and a long glass gallery that crosses the entire courtyard leads to the elevator hall in the central tower.

The decorative metal structure on the roof immediately identified the high-rise popular name"golden brains" In fact, she also has some practical significance: sheets cover the communication systems protruding from the roof and the observation deck on which the restaurant operates.

The architects jokingly define the building style as post-Soviet modernism - favorite direction ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov in architecture. Despite the shortcomings, the RAS House quickly managed to become one of unofficial symbols Moscow. Considering the location, this was not difficult: the high-rise building on Leninsky Prospekt stands on a natural hill and is surrounded by low buildings - this decision still makes it the only architectural dominant of the southwestern part of the city. City authorities have repeatedly voiced the initiative to organize an observation deck on the roof of the Russian Academy of Sciences. But doing this in the near future will not be easy - the entire penthouse of the building is leased to a private structure, and the site is now occupied by a restaurant.

The Moscow Art Deco Museum opened its doors to visitors on December 19, 2014. Its exhibition is based on the collection of Mkrtich Okroyan. A significant part of the presented collection consists of decorative sculptures made of bronze and Ivory, as well as furniture and decorative panels.

Today, M. Okroyan’s collection includes the largest number of works made of bronze and ivory from the 1920-1930s, which numbers more than 900 works. Among them are about 100 sculptures by Dmitry Chiparus, the most prominent representative of decorative plastic arts of the 1920-1930s. The remaining 800 works are works by Ferdinand Preiss, Paul Philippe, Otto Porzel, Pierre Le Fagoy, Claire Colinet and other artists.

The museum also contains pieces of furniture created by Edgar Brandt, who turned the forging technique into an industry without losing its artistic quality. So are his set of dining room chairs and console table. The exhibition features a large panel by Pierre Bobo (1902-1974), which once decorated the Roseland Ballroom in New York, where the most famous jazz performers performed. Nearby are other works by Jean Dunant (1877-1942) and Francois-Louis Schmid (1873-1941). Graceful figurines with musical instruments different eras as if they were telling the whole history of human music from Ancient Egypt to the jazz of the early 1920s, when this panel was created.

The Russian Academy of Sciences has almost five hundred buildings, employing about sixty thousand employees. But the main building of the RAS, of course, is the Presidium building. The 22-story twin buildings are located in the southwest of Moscow, on Leninsky Prospekt, and are clearly visible from the center of Moscow and from the Sparrow Hills. A complex of ornate geometric architecture made of glass, aluminum and bronze, burning brightly in the sun, catches your eye. This pommel was popularly called “golden brains”.

Building of the Russian Academy of Sciences - anthem Soviet science, whose heir was to become new organization. Architecture in the spirit of the scientific avant-garde, the monumentality and power of the building, dressed in marble and glass, makes you proud domestic science and be in awe of the power of thought of our scientists even at one glance at the building.

The complex itself on the upper floors of the RAS building was, according to rumors, built for the purpose of accumulating solar energy and directing it to provide electricity to all premises and units of the building. But this hypothesis does not stand up to criticism: the father of the “golden brains” can be considered the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences V. Keldysh, and the scientist was fascinated by space and personally made a sketch of the complex. The structure on the roof of the building is actually the final element of the sculptural composition of the building, dedicated to travel on the Universe - the topic of space was very fashionable in those years and found support in all circles of power and science.

The decision to build of this object was adopted in 1966, the first stage of the building was put into operation only in 1990. There is a rumor that scientists were afraid of the site of the building, considering it geopathogenic, and therefore were very reluctant to move to a new place of work.
The “golden brains” took about twenty years to build - the project began to be implemented only in 1974. The construction was supervised by Yuri Platonov, under his command were the architects Barshch, Batyreva, Zakharov and Zvezdin, and the engineer Levenshtein. The co-authors of the project were Antonov, Timakov, Nikiforov. In 1997, Yuri Pavlovich Platonov was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for this object.
According to rumors, much of what Platonov’s team planned did not come true: all floors of the building were not built (Sparrow Hills would not have been able to withstand the load), solar panels did not work. According to one version, the reason for this was that the electricity generated by solar panels was not enough to service computers to monitor the operation of the complex - supposedly in those days computers were huge. According to another version, solar panels were never installed, since with the collapse of the USSR many interesting and secret projects were frozen.

Legends of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, due to its original architecture, could not help but become surrounded by rumors and legends. And this is not strange, because just one look at the “golden brains” can not only excite the brain of a particularly impressionable person, but also the average person will not remain indifferent to the beauty of the composition.

Old-timers who have lived in the Vorobyovy Gory area for a long time “remember” from time to time that there was once a slaughterhouse on the site of the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And here the remains of animals were buried. Consequently, in their opinion, the place is unclean, and it was not for nothing that the wise ancestors built St. Andrew’s Monastery near the river, and not on a seemingly convenient hillock. Elderly people say: as soon as something was built on vacant lots in the area of ​​​​the current Gagarin Square, the object inexplicably fell apart. So the old people are still waiting for the “golden brains” to fall to the ground - the place, according to their conversations, is like this: a catastrophe is bound to happen. In their opinion, sooner or later, it will definitely happen.

Rumors that the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a place where dark forces are concentrated are accumulating among the workers of the building. One of the employees of the Academy of Sciences, while in the premises of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, allegedly experiences inexplicable headaches for no apparent reason.
The most exotic myths concerning “golden brains” relate to the intelligence services. Someone says that the top of the building was installed not as a system for accumulating solar energy, but as a device for zombifying guests and residents of the Soviet capital. Or like an antenna transmitting signals to suppress the will of people - something similar was played out by Fyodor Bondarchuk in the film “Inhabited Island”.

There are opinions that “golden brains” are protection against terrorists trying to hijack or who have already hijacked planes. Or that this is a modern dome of a temple of science, having the same functions as the dome of a Christian temple.

Esotericists and researchers anomalous phenomena went further, and they claim: the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is nothing more than an accumulator of the Earth’s torsion radiation, and the branched-golden structure crowning the structure directs the energy in the direction required by certain forces. This is a proven scheme for collecting energy force - it can be seen in the temples of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

But why accumulate the Earth's torsion radiation? Mystics put forward their theory here too. Everything that has corners (even monuments, and not just houses and temples), everything connected with electricity (power poles and lighting poles), tall towers (Ostankinskaya and Eiffel, for example), collects energy and starts the process of accelerating the work of genetic programs . In their opinion, if you look at urban and rural residents, then you can see that in megacities people age earlier, but they are wiser and smarter than provincials.

The fact that the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences is surrounded by many rumors and legends is a consequence of the extraordinary beauty and originality of the building’s architecture, created by Soviet architects who were passionate about science fiction and space. The system on the upper floors of the building, burning gold in the sun, really looks like a structure solar panels. Terrible dark forces, headaches for unknown reasons among employees working in the building, terrible systems for zombifying emitters that suppress the will of ordinary people - all this, according to the creators of the complex, has nothing real. And the “solar energy accumulation receivers” on the windows are actually just a tinted darkening with gold plating, the main function of which is to add beauty and completeness to the architecture of an extraordinary building, recognized architectural monument. By the way, the complex was built by Yugoslav builders from their own building materials.

The building is beautiful outside and inside. Engineering communications are made of very high quality. This is the first building in the USSR where “single-handle” faucets were installed, and an electronic building control system “smart home” was used. Unfortunately, today the building is gradually dying from illiterate use. Many unique lamps have been broken, vandal-like alterations of equipment are being carried out, while high-quality equipment is being replaced by cheap counterfeits. No one monitors the preservation of the original interiors - the tenants mutilate the premises as they please, and the contractors performing work in the building do not stand on ceremony with architectural elements that cannot be ordered again, since they were made at defunct factories in Yugoslavia. And the replacement of elevators is an example of wild, monstrous incompetence of local operation. First, the elevators were ruined with disgusting service, and then the fire-fighting elevators were replaced with regular ones.

What will happen next to the unique building is even more alarming because latest events around the Russian Academy of Sciences. And yet, using our weakness for the unusual, enterprising businessmen adapt to the demands today. Thus, on the 22nd floor of the building there is a restaurant of original Japanese cuisine, Sky Lounge, and on the 3rd floor there is a cafe “Neskuchny Sad”. In addition, there are organized observation decks, the best of which is in the restaurant: from there you can see Luzhniki, Moscow State University, Gagarin Square, Neskuchny Garden, the Kremlin, Crimean Bridge, Leninsky Prospekt, Central House of Artists, part of the thermal power plant, etc. Almost all of Moscow.

Yuri Pavlovich Platonov was chosen as the project manager for the construction of the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born on September 4, 1929.

The works of Yuri Pavlovich are highly appreciated at exhibitions in the capitals of our Fatherland, France, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Germany, the USA, Argentina, etc. For projects of the Moscow “golden brains”, the Museum of the Revolution, the Central House of Artists, the Paris Pompidou Centers, Tête-Défense, La Villette , Tangier Tourist center, Sofia scientific complex, General Plan of Moscow, Sochi Business Center, etc. the architect received many international and state awards.

Yuri Pavlovich Platonov, despite his advanced age, is full of ideas and does not stop working on original projects. He is an active member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Arts, and many foreign architectural academies and collegiums, chief architect of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of GIPRONII RAS and TPO-5 - Bureau Platonov, adviser to the mayor of Moscow, people's architect of the USSR, honored architect of the RSFSR, professor and multiple laureate of state awards, has awards from a number of countries around the world. He was offered prestigious positions in foreign organizations, but he still lives and works in Moscow.