White House, Moscow
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The White House (Russian: Белый дом), also known as the Russian White House, is a government building in Moscow. It was designed by the architects Dmitry Chechulin and P. Shteller. Construction started in 1965 and ended in 1981. Overall design follows Chechulin's 1934 draft of the Aeroflot building.
The building housed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet until the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, when an uprising led to a siege and artillery bombardment on the building that caused a major fire.
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 government.
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