The buildings of architect L. Rudnev are among the most prominent in Moscow. He led the design team on the project to build the high-rise edifice of Moscow State University on Lenin (now Sparrow) Hills (1953). His design project for Arbat Square, which was only partially implemented, reflects the architect's transition from the gloomy splendor of the buildings of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the 1930s to the buoyant pomposity characteristic of the architecture of the 1940s and early 50s. // Building of the People's Commissariat.

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