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The
White House of Russia (Белый дом), also known as the
Russian White House, is a government building in
Moscow. It was designed by the architects D. Chechulin and P. Shteller. Construction started in
1965 and ended in
1979. The building housed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet until the crisis of 4 October
1993 when an uprising led to a siege and artillery bombardment on the building that caused a major fire. (See also: Russian constitutional crisis of 1993).
The reformed parliament, known thereafter by its tsarist era title of
Duma, was elected in
1994 and moved to another building on Moscow's Okhotny Ryad.
The renovated White House now houses the Russian cabinet known as
Pravitel'stvo (translated in English as Government).
See also
* White House, official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America
External links
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White House Satellite Views by Google Maps Category:Buildings and structures in Moscow
Category:Legislative buildings
Category:Government of Moscow
