On September 07, 1947, the foundations of eight high-rise buildings were laid simultaneously in Moscow - a gift for the 800th anniversary of the capital. Ten years later, seven of them, including the Moscow State University building on the Vorobyovy Gory, decorated the Moscow skyline, becoming a symbol of the post-war revival of the USSR.

The architecture of Stalin's high-rise buildings echoed that of the Manhattan Municipal Building, the Woolworth Building, and the Empire State Building in New York. But while Manhattan stood on solid rock, Moscow is located on hills and swamps. The best specialists of the time were brought to the construction, and engineer Nikolai Nikitin was involved in the construction of MSU, who developed the design of the foundation and framework of the building. The box foundation of MSU is a sealed reinforced concrete box of small height, but with dense walls. Nikitin calculated that it is possible to build on unreliable soils, if you “humble” their swelling, for this purpose the foundation should “float” in the ground on the hollow inside concrete boxes in the 18-meter deep excavation. The electrically welded boxes equalized the building's settlement and neutralized the reactivity of the soils. Another of Nikitin's solutions - steel columns of cross section with free suspension of slabs, which allowed to build a high-rise without temperature and sedimentation joints.

In the new MSU building, some of the first air conditioners in the country started working as experimental units. The star on the spire of the high-rise weighs 12 tons, 68 elevators work in the building.

Today specialists of “ ACM Group” are back in Moscow and will continue their work on the building of Moscow State University.