Abstract
BEFORE the outbreak of hostilities, the main building of the new home of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. had been started on the Krimsky Embankment of the Moscow River. The building was designed by the Soviet architect, Prof. A. V. Shchusev, who recently stated that this would be one of the largest buildings in the Soviet capital—755 ft. long, 328 ft. wide and 131¼ ft. high. The new building will house the presidium of the Academy, twelve institutes, a library with a depository for four million books, and two exhibition halls. One of the features of the building is a round conference hall, 118 ft. in diameter, with comfortable seating accommodation for a thousand persons. Connected with each of the two exhibition halls will be a semi-circular auditorium seating a hundred and fifty persons and specially fitted for demonstration lectures.
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