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Last update of repository: 17 March 2020

Muzei “Dom na naberezhnoi”


History
The museum opened in 1989 in the so-called “House on the Embankment,” sometimes known as “Government House,”a large complex built during the years 1927–1931, where many well-known government and cultural figures lived. The building (planned by the architect B.M. Iofan) became famous from the novel of the same name by Iurii V. Trifonov, who grew up in that complex. Because many of its notorious inhabitants were subsequently repressed during the Stalin epoch, it became known as the “Brotherly Grave (Bratskaia Mogila).”
        In 2014 the Museum "House on the embankment" became a Division of the Museum Association “Moscow City Museum”. In 2016 it was attached to the State Museum of the History of GULAG (H–6).


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