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    "The House on Chicken Legs" was built in 1968 in the Alexeyevsky District of Moscow, Russia.
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    A *hochhaus* (skyscraper) built in the 1970s on the Herzbergstraße in Fennpfuhl, Lichtenberg, Berlin.
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    "The Hammer" high-rise on Smolna street in Śródmieście, Północne, Warsaw, Poland, was completed in 1976.
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    The Torwar Estate on Fabryczna street in Solec, Śródmieście, Warsaw, Poland. It was built between 1971 and 1973.
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    A Soviet mosaic adorns a tower block built in the late 1960s on Prospekt Peremohy, in Shuliavka, Shevchenkivskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine.
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    Za Żelazną Bramą Estate on Marszałkowska Street in Śródmieście Północne, Warsaw, Poland. It was constructed between 1965 and 1972.
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    Residential tower blocks built on Obolonskyi Prospekt in Obolon, Obolonskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1981.
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    The Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics towers above the Kalininsky District in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was constructed from 1973 to 1986.
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    A reinforced concrete housing complex near Novosmolenskaya Embankment in Vasileostrovsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built in 1986.
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    The Novoyasenevskiy Prospekt housing complex was built in Yasenevo District, Moscow, Russia, in the mid 1980s.
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    Shevchenko University was built from 1972 to 1980 in Holosiivskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine.
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    Club100, property of the Russian embassy in Warsaw, is located on Sobieskiego Street in Sielce, Mokotów.
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    A 1970s housing complex located near Märkische Allee in Marzahn, Berlin, Germany.
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    Plattenbau on Frankfurter Allee in Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany.
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