Olympic Village (Moscow)
image:Олимпийская деревня-80.jpg, 200px, View of the Olympic Village Olympic Village () is a residential microdistrict in the west of Moscow in the Troparevo-Nikulino area, built in 1977–1980 as part of a program to prepare for the 1980 Summer Olympics for the accommodation of their participants. When designing it, a standard series of residential panel houses was used, and the construction of household buildings envisaged by the project made it possible to transfer the microdistrict to the city after the end of the Olympics. In addition, some of the buildings house cultural institutions. History Background image:RIAN archive 555838 Housing estate in Olympic village.jpg, 200px, View of the Olympic Village in 1980 The issue of constructing the Olympic Village arose after October 23, 1974, when Moscow was approved as the site for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Initially, several projects were proposed for its implementation: one of them involved implementation in round ...
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