Hotel Intourist
{{Short description|Former hotel in Moscow, Russia}}
{{for|the hotel of the same name in Moldava|National Hotel (Chișinău)}}
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| hotel_name = Hotel Intourist
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| image = Corner of Manege Square, Moscow.jpg
| caption = Hotel Intourist, behind the Hotel National
| location = Moscow, Russia
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| opening_date = 1970
| closing_date = January 7, 2002{{cite news |url=https://echo.msk.ru/news/74287.html |title=Последний постоялец покинет гостиницу Интурист сегодня в 12 часов. После этого гостиница будет закрыта |publisher=Echo Moscow |date=2002-01-07}}
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| architect = Vsevolod Voskresensky, Yury Sheverdrayev Aleksandr Boltinov{{cite web | url=https://archi.ru/russia/74987/razmyshleniya-po-povodu-snosa-gostinicy-inturist |title=Размышления по поводу сноса гостиницы "Интурист" |publisher=Archi.ru |language=Russian |accessdate=2020-05-04}}
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| number_of_rooms = 436
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| floors = 22
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The Hotel Intourist ({{langx|ru|гости́ница «Интурист»}}) was a hotel in Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1970 as a hotel exclusively for foreign tourists to the Soviet Union. In 2002 the hotel was closed and demolished. The Carlton Moscow now stands on the site.
History
The hotel was built in 1970 by the Soviet state-owned travel monopoly Intourist on Tverskaya Street just north of Red Square. It was the tallest reinforced concrete structure in Moscow.{{cite news |url=https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=99590 |title="Интурист" снесли. На очереди - "Москва", "Минск" и "Киевская" |publisher=Vesti |language=Russian |date=2002-10-31}} The hallways were decorated with three stained glass works designed by Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina. The images, which included nude figures in "Man and Woman", were somewhat scandalous at the time.{{cite web |url=https://vitroart.ru/articles/articles/Polishuk_sherbinina/ |title="Другие витражи": Леонид Полищук и Светлана Щербинина |author=T. V. Knyazhitskaya |language=Russian |accessdate=2020-05-04}} In 1983 the Hotel Intourist was merged with the adjacent Hotel National and the hotels operated under joint management until the National closed in 1989.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}
In April 1999, an explosion set in an elevator on the 20th floor injured 11 people and ripped through the 17th floor. The bomb exploded near the offices of Russian singer and State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon.{{cite news |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/bomb-blows-hole-in-intourist-hotel |title=Bomb Blows Hole in Intourist Hotel |work=Moscow Times |date=1999-04-27}} No suspects were apprehended in the explosion.{{cite news |url=http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/sitemap/free/2002/1/article/unloved-intourist-closes-its-doors/249388.html |title=Unloved Intourist Closes Its Doors |work=Moscow Times |date=2002-01-09 |access-date=2020-05-05 |archive-date=2020-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806195029/http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/sitemap/free/2002/1/article/unloved-intourist-closes-its-doors/249388.html |url-status=dead }}
After the fall of the Soviet Union, luxury hotels catering to western guests quickly entered the market and the hotel quickly became dated.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/business/soviet-hotel-in-moscow-to-be-razed.html |title=Soviet Hotel In Moscow To Be Razed |work=New York Times |date=2002-01-09}} Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov called it a "rotting tooth" on Tverskaya Street.{{cite news |url=https://www.newsru.com/russia/07jan2002/inturist.html |title="Интурист" закрыт. Последним отель покинул постоялец из Канады |work=News.ru |language=Russian |date=2002-01-07}} The hotel closed on January 7, 2002 after the last guests checked out and the city began demolition shortly thereafter. The property was taken down in pieces by cranes and many of the materials were recycled. The glass was sold off, the concrete was turned into crushed stone and the rebar was melted down.
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Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1970
Category:Hotels built in the Soviet Union
Category:Defunct hotels in Russia
Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Moscow
Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 2002
Category:1970 in the Soviet Union
Category:Hotels established in 1970