Tverskaya Street
Broad Stalin-era boulevard lined with buildings once rolled back on rails to widen the road.
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This guide to Tverskaya Street in Moscow opens on the night of November 4, 1939, when a five-story building weighing thousands of tons rolled backward through the dark while its sleeping residents never woke. It follows Stalin's order to widen the street for grand parades, the engineers who chose to relocate entire buildings rather than flatten them, and the secrecy they kept from the people inside. Listen for how many other buildings across Moscow moved the same way, and where one of them still stands today.
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