Rezidor reopens Moscow's Hotel Ukraina
Rezidor has reopened the former Hotel Ukraina in Moscow, USSR, as the Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow.
The 206m-tall building is one of what are known as Josef Stalin's 'Seven Sisters' (Stalinskie Vysotki) skyscrapers, built between 1947 and 1953. Comprising a 34-story hotel building and two 11-storey apartment blocks, it stands on a bend in the Moscow River, across the water from the White House Parliament building. Following a three-year renovation, it now offers 506 guest rooms and suites, plus 38 apartments. Facilities include the Veranda, Tatler Club, Bono, Farsi and Takasa restaurants inside the hotel, with a sixth dining option consisting of Yacht Restaurants on the river which can provide sightseeing trips while visitors eat. The hotel also offers the Trubadur Karaoke Bar.
On the first floor is the 3,500sq m (37,674sq ft) Royal Wellness Club health and fitness centre which features a 50m heated indoor pool, a gym, a beauty parlour and spa area, thermal baths and massage rooms. Elsewhere are meeting rooms and two conferencing and banqueting halls. Fine art is also a feature, with the hotel's rooms and public spaces being decorated with a collection of paintings comprising more than 1,200 original masterworks by Russian artists created in the first half of the 20th century.
On the ground floor is a 400sq m (4,305sq ft), 1:75 scale diorama called 'Moscow - the capital of the USSR', showing the historical centre of the city and its environs in 1977, the year in which it was created.