Casa Presei Libere, as seen from Herăstrău

Casa Presei Libere is a building in northern Bucharest, Romania. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 836 KB) Taken from Herăstrău. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 836 KB) Taken from Herăstrău. ... Herăstrău is a large park in the northern side of Bucharest, Romania, around the Herăstrău Lake. ... Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti ) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. ...

The construction began in 1952 and was completed in 1956. The building was named Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Scînteii "I.V.Stalin" and later Casa Scînteii (Scînteia was the name of the Romanian Communist Party's official newspaper). It was designed by the architect Horia Maicu, in the pure (albeit comparatively small-scale) style of Soviet Socialist realism, resembling the main building of the Moscow State University, and was intended to house all of Bucharest's printing presses, the newsrooms and their staff. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scînteia (The Spark; a new spelling of the name in Romanian would be Scânteia) was the name of two newspapers edited by Communist groups at different intervals in Romanian history. ... The Romanian Communist Party (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român) was a Communist political party in Romania until 1989. ... Never executed design for the Palace of Soviets in Moscow. ... Roses for Stalin, Boris Vladimirski, 1949 Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский Государственный Университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ...

Lenin's statue being pulled down

It has a foundation with an area of 280x260m, the total constructed surface is 32,000 m² and it has a volume of 735,000 m³. Its height is 91.6 m without the television antenna, which has an additional 12.4 m. ^[1] Image File history File links Lenin_statue_pulled_down. ... Image File history File links Lenin_statue_pulled_down. ...

In front of the building, on 21 April 1960 was placed a giant statue of Vladimir Lenin, made by Romanian sculptor Boris Caragea. This statue was however removed on 3 March 1990, following the Romanian Revolution of 1989.^[2] April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... (help· info) (Владимир Ильич Ленин) IPA: born Ulyanov (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which he described as an adaptation of Marxism to the... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...

It has basically the same role nowadays, with many of today's newspapers having their headquarters in the same building, now renamed Casa Presei Libere ("The House of the Free Press"). The Bucharest Stock Exchange is located in the southern wing. The Bucharest Stock Exchange (Bursa de Valori BucureÅŸti in Romanian) is a stock exchange in Bucharest, capital of Romania. ...

Casa Presei Libere, frontal view

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1509x687, 223 KB) Casa Presei Libere (Press Freedom House) in Bucharest, Romania. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1509x687, 223 KB) Casa Presei Libere (Press Freedom House) in Bucharest, Romania. ...

References

1. ↑ Dicţionarul Enciclopedic Romîn, 1962
2. ↑ România Liberă, "Epilog la o statuie", 4 March 1990.