More than the "Seven Sisters"
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or, as also tabbed, "Stalin's Wedding Cakes"<br /><br />New skyscrapers, founded upon post-Soviet economic expansion, as seen from crest of Sparrow Hill near Moscow State University, southwest Moscow.<br /><br />Moscow River in foreground<br /><br />At the end of the Soviet era, Moscow had but seven skyscrapers. They had been built upon order of Stalin.<br /><br />Their unusual designs led them to be lauded as "The Seven Sisters", or derided as "Stalin's Wedding Cakes".