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Main building of the Presidium Russian Academy Sciences (RAS), the “golden brains” on Leninsky Prospekt have 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 entrusted the official design of the building to a separate structure, the 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 House of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an electronics control system was tested “ smart House”, 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 is located 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, it also has some practical significance: the 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 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.

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.

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” 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. 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.