Stalin ordered the building of the "7 sisters", huge prestige objects including the Moscow State University, hotel Ukraina and others. https://www.rferl.org/a/stalins-seven-sisters-the-skyscrapers-of-moscow/29496621.html The building quality is really bad, as could be expected, under the USSR: Moscow Monumental — the towering hubris of Stalin’s skyscrapers https://www.ft.com/content/e1a4e63e-eb0c-479f-bce7-e137677ae16a