Where did the phrase come from: “and I was there, I drank honey-beer, it flowed down my mustache, but it didn’t get into my mouth”? Never comb your hair haphazardly.

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 Russian Academy 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 elevated bank of the Moscow River. Therefore, it offers a very good view of the city.

01. 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.

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

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

04. 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.

05. 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.

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

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

08. Pushkinsky Bridge, and behind it the favorite bridge of suicides in Moscow - Crimean. 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 banal and simple - it is very easy to climb on it (I was there myself).

09. The main higher institution of our country is Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.

10. Luzhnetsky Bridge. At the top 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. Most big 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. The landscape behind the stadium 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 the entire 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. Central office of Sberbank of Russia OJSC. 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. In addition to the “golden crown” on central building, there are still interesting decorative delights in the complex, but on a smaller rooftop, which we visited a few months earlier.

26. Among which is a huge watch with four dials different color: green, red, white and blue - directed in different directions.

27. Initially, there were no clocks in the model and on the plans of the complex of buildings of the Presidium of the USSR Academy. Most likely they decided to add them later.

Photo from the layout

28. A photograph from the magazine “Construction and Architecture of Moscow” dated 1984 shows that some kind of work is taking place in the place where the clock now stands.

29. In addition to its design, the watch is also unique in that all dials show different time. It didn’t immediately dawn on me why the time on the clock was different. But after walking on the roof for about an hour, it dawned on me - they don’t work. It is surprising that there is a broken clock on the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

They say that they never worked at all due to the fact that a number of parts were not delivered from abroad. If this is so, then it seems to me that those who monitor the condition of the building should be ashamed that they are not able to fix them. It seems that the frozen clock hands symbolize the stop of science in our country.

30. We took pictures for hours when it was warm, but this time on the roof of the main building we were completely frozen from the cold, so we went down from the roof of the building.

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

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 sculpture 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 a bright representative 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 adorned Ballroom Roseland in New York, where the most famous jazz performers. Nearby are other works by Jean Dunant (1877-1942) and Francois-Louis Schmid (1873-1941). Graceful figures 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.

Looking for a room for Federal agency scientific organizations(FANO), which is created to manage the property of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), Rosimushchestvo made unexpected discovery. During an inspection of the academy's real estate, it turned out that the building on Vorobyovy Gory, colloquially called "Brains", does not belong to anyone, reports "Kommersant". This information is available at the RAS.

It's about about a 25-story building with a total area of 106.33 thousand square meters. meters at Leninsky Prospekt, 32A. Until now, it was believed that the building was under the management of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on whose balance sheet it appears. But, as the audit revealed, the land-legal relations of the academy are neither for the building nor for land plot under it (4.9 hectares) are not decorated. Moreover, the site is not included in the federal property register and the Russian Federation’s ownership of it has not been registered. In the summer, the Russian Academy of Sciences tried to register the rights to the building. But the Moscow office of Rosreestr refused due to the lack of documents confirming the emergence of ownership rights. The Moscow Department of Land Resources did the same.

Kommersant's source in the department admitted that the Russian Academy of Sciences, as the copyright holder, did not register the property rights of the Russian Federation, although it was obliged to do so. “This is a legacy of old times,” says the newspaper’s interlocutor. “In order to formalize the Russian Federation’s rights to land, it will be necessary to carry out a complex of technical work, in particular, land surveying. We will oblige the new copyright holder, the RAS Property Management Agency, to do this.”

The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Fortov, believes that the academy’s disposal of the building on Leninsky Prospekt is legal, since “it was originally built for the academy.” He stated that he knew nothing about the inspection and its conclusions.

The Federal Property Management Agency does not hide that the inspection was carried out in connection with plans for the placement FANO. According to the law on reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences the agency will manage the property and scientific institutes academy. The department, created by presidential decree on September 27, is in the formation stage, but it is already known that it will be located on the premises of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt. It is expected that they will be released by 12 academic institutions and scientific centers. They occupy about 12 thousand square meters. meters in the building, according to the materials of the Federal Property Management Agency. The remaining 18 thousand sq. meters used 67 third party organizations. The newly created agency should not have any difficulties with eviction of tenants if such a decision is made, noted lawyers interviewed by the newspaper.

The famous complex of RAS buildings on Leninsky Prospekt was built over 20 years according to the project creative team architects and designers under the leadership of architect Yuri Platonov. The decision to build it was made in 1966; construction itself began only in 1974. The office part was commissioned in 1990, and the large concert hall was ready only in 1997. The 22-story building with a golden crown has become one of the dominant features of the area and is clearly visible from the center of Moscow and from the Sparrow Hills. It is one of the main attractions of the capital, standing on the high bank of the Moscow River. There is a restaurant on the top floor and penthouse of the building.

Academician Nekipelov: the RAS building is registered as state property

The Russian Academy of Sciences is surprised by the appearance in the media of information that famous building The Russian Academy of Sciences on Vorobyovy Gory does not have an owner.

“I was amazed when I saw a message that the building was supposedly ownerless and not included in the register of state property. I was sure that this was some kind of mistake, and I was assured that the documents were there,” he told the agency "Interfax" on Friday, Academician Alexander Nekipelov, who served as Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences for more than a decade.

According to his information, all documents specifically for the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt, building 32A “exist and are known to the Federal Property Management Agency.” At the same time, he explained that the question of the site where the RAS building is located is fundamentally different.

“Perhaps there are problems with the site that have not been fully resolved - this is possible. But as for the building, the building is at the disposal of the Academy of Sciences and is registered as state property,” he said. “No one has ever had any doubts about who owns the building, it’s just some kind of misunderstanding,” the agency’s interlocutor emphasized.

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”.

The building of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a hymn to Soviet science, of which it was supposed to be the heir 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 with 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 sculptural composition building dedicated to travel through the Universe - the theme of space was very fashionable in those years and found support in all circles of power and science.

The decision to construct this facility was made 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 of 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, 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 extraordinary beauty and the 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 solar panel design. 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” mixers were installed, and an electronic building management system was used “ smart House" 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. Nobody monitors the preservation of the original interiors - tenants mutilate the premises as they wish, and the contractors performing work in the building do not stand on ceremony with architectural elements, which cannot be ordered again, since they were made at already non-existent 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. So, on the 22nd floor of the building there is an original restaurant Japanese cuisine Sky Lounge and on the 3rd floor - the Neskuchny Garden cafe. 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 old age, full of ideas and never stops 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.

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 figures with musical instruments from different eras seem to tell the entire history of human music from Ancient Egypt to jazz in the early 1920s, when this panel was created.