The height of the building is 22 floors. It is made of metal and concrete. The metal frame was designed in Moscow, and the building was built on special machines on Apennine Peninsula in Italy and then collected again in Russia.
The idea for the project was borrowed from a building in Bologna, Italy. In Moscow, Yakov Belopolsky took up the project, but he did not want to implement the idea of another architect and added “broken” crystals to the concept.
« Blue tooth» was conceived as the third building of the Russian Academy national economy and civil services under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA), then - as the largest business center in the capital. On the top floor of the building they wanted to make the main restaurant of the city called “Mash”. But all plans failed.
Construction of the building began in 1990, but 14 years later the construction was “frozen” due to problems with financing. By that time, the skyscraper was 95% ready. It had a 10-story atrium with panoramic elevators and escalators, a swimming pool and a concert hall. The apartments had baths installed, electrical networks and air conditioning systems installed.
In 2011, the facility was transferred to the Academy of National Economy. The territory is guarded and unauthorized entry is prohibited, but previously vandals managed to damage the high-rise building both inside and outside.
The federal government has already allocated money for the examination of the “glass” and the development of project documentation. Surveys and measurements of the object are currently underway. The specialists are faced with a difficult task - to check the stability of the building. All surveys are planned to be completed within a year.
The fate of the long-term construction has not yet been decided. But there are several options for the development of events. The first is to complete the high-rise building and strengthen the structures, the second is to replace individual elements of the building and complete construction.
In January 2017, a company was selected at the auction to develop the project and reconstruct the long-term construction. The issue of financing has been resolved, the contractor can complete the building in two to three years. All that remains is to wait for the results of the examination.
This building of memorable shape and color (both are aptly reflected in its “folk” name) is familiar to every resident of the South-West. But I think only the attentive and curious will guess that this is an unfinished, in fact, a beautiful and very expensive ruin. In any case, I had no idea until they told me this place was among the “stalker” objects in Moscow.
This grandiose unfinished building has official name Business center "Zenith", 22 floors high and area 100,000 square meters. It not only has a remarkable appearance (very innovative for the city, especially considering that it appeared long before CITY and other extravagant Moscow remakes), but also a complicated history, which I will try to briefly outline.
The idea of construction arose in the late Soviet years from the then rector of the Academy of National Economy (which owned the territory in the South-West) A. Aganbegyan. The construction was financed mainly by the Italians and they also made the metal frame of the building (which was then assembled in Moscow) and many other materials. Construction began in 1991 and by 1995 it was no less than 80% completed: according to Wikipedia, a 10-story atrium with panoramic elevators and escalators, a swimming pool, a concert hall was ready, and even bathtubs were delivered to the apartments.
And then, as a result of anti-corruption investigations in Italy, the company that carried out the construction ceased to exist, and leapfrog began with forms of ownership, privatization and owners of the building in Russia; as a result, construction was stopped at the last stage. Since then, everything has only been falling apart: (and it is unlikely that it can now be restored.
From the inside there (judging by photographs and reports) there is a real stalker's jungle, amateurs regularly sneak in there, despite the solid fence and security (it seems possible to negotiate with her), an external inspection was enough to satisfy my curiosity.
There is a small boulevard from the metro to the Blue Tooth 
From a close distance, the crumbling state of the building is, alas, obvious 
"Blue Tooth" is notable for the fact that different sides has completely different appearance.
Although this part of the unfinished building is not fenced off with a solid green fence and looks quite decent from the outside, it, alas, is also uninhabited. 
Next door is a gigantic territory, the owner of which is named on a sign (one of the successors of the Academy of National Economy, which once began construction) 
There is still some construction going on in the rear. 
Like this strange story. Truly, Moscow is a city of miracles...
Update. I am adding the latest information via the link from the comments.
The building in 2012 was transferred to the balance of the Academy (RANEPA, successor to the Academy of National Economy)... First of all, there was an urgent question of conducting a comprehensive assessment and examination of what had survived over two decades... In addition to the technical and economic component and large number safety criteria, it was also necessary to analyze the aspect of compliance with the various standards that are in force today. (For example, now there are completely different fire safety standards in force, and not those that were in place when construction began in the 90s, etc.). Since almost all construction documentation was lost, it became clear that everything would have to be restored step by step. In April 2012, the Academy announced an open competition to carry out work on the technical inspection of the Zenit center.
The inspection findings refuted the worst fears: the building structure is in an acceptable condition for further operation. At the same time, according to preliminary calculations, it turned out that the cost of completing the administrative and educational building could amount to about 6 billion rubles, and a new administrative and educational building (with dismantling of the existing one) would cost less - about 5.4 billion rubles. The Academy appealed to the Government Russian Federation with a request to resolve the issue of the fate of Zenit and consider the possibility of financing decision taken. To date, we have carried out all possible actions on this object and are waiting for the Government’s decision. In any case, it’s too early to put an end to this story.
In general, Demolition cannot be completed...
Hello.
Not far from the station. m. Yugo-Zapadnaya there is an extremely popular place - the unfinished business center "Zenith". The building has been abandoned almost since the 90s, during which time an insane number of people visited the Zenit business center. Naturally, the building has become overgrown with many local legends and unofficial nicknames: “Blue (blue) Tooth”, “Crystal”, “Lump”, “Bluetooth” :) There is a lot of information on this object on the Internet, even more than one person has written about it in the media twice, so I won’t describe in detail the footage of the building and the history of construction, because... firstly, it’s not interesting, and secondly, everything is Googled. Let me just say that good old Bluetooth still amazes with its huge size and underground atmosphere.
The object is guarded. A few years ago, when there were no guards inside the Zub, it was not difficult to get there for free. Then, according to rumors, a couple of corpses were taken out of the elevator shaft, some of the new stalkers were severely bitten by stray dogs, and the guards moved to the first floor of the Cob. Of course, the access regime has not become much stricter, but now you almost always have to pay.
Why did we go there? Well, I used to climb a lot. Then he grew a little and practically stopped, but my brother started climbing :) Then he also grew a little, some time passed, and this spring he and I decided to climb old objects. Moreover, I continue to experiment with the cross-process, and such trashy shots require suitable interiors.
In general, since there are already a lot of people going to Zub, it’s okay if I write how to get there, so that the pioneers don’t rack their brains.
I’ll say right away that we were not prepared at all. Not only did I run out of film, and I filmed practically nothing, but I also got caught by the wrong security, and as a result, I was banned for nothing. That is, in fact, they didn’t get off successfully.
Now, in order.
How to find. We leave the metro to the metro station. Southwestern. We are looking for McDuck. The block is already clearly visible from McDuck (and, in general, visible from the metro).
There are three ways to get into the Tooth.
The first way is to not pay anyone anything. You can enter the territory through the fence from the street. Academician Anokhin (in the summer the grass is trampled in this place, and in the winter there is a path in the snow :)) Then we walk through the territory, pretending to be a shoe, without being scorched, we go around the Lump on the right. We see a rather low fence, an abandoned UAZ type Bukhanka, and a staircase that leads inside the Zub. We go inside, then the main thing is to quietly go upstairs without meeting the guards. The route looks like this.
The second way is to pay everyone. On the street Koshtoyants we approach the checkpoint, negotiate, go into the territory, then we break directly to the guard of the Tooth, negotiate, go through. The route looks like this.
The third method is combined. We climb over the fence, already inside the Zub we look for guards and come to an agreement. We used exactly this method.
Now the report itself.
The tooth is beautiful)
Both outside and inside.
Since Glyba is a huge atrium with mirrored windows, not much light gets inside, especially in cloudy weather, and electricity is not supplied everywhere) In general, a tripod can be useful. They can still brush off dogs, so it’s better to take them, of course. And a flashlight! Don't forget the flashlight!)
Despite the fact that everything is beaten up and stolen, the place is extremely interesting.
In short, wander around to your heart's content. The view from the roof, in my opinion, is not very good, since the area is not the most picturesque, but inside the building, of course, is impressive.
Now a few words about how we were kicked out of there)
We entered the Zub, found the security room, and went to negotiate. We look: there is a home-made punching bag hanging from the ceiling, some kind of dog is bristling and it’s generally not comfortable) Well, we shouted, called the security - no one came out. It was scary to get closer because of the dog.
We spat, feet in hands - and up. That's when they removed us :) The security downstairs didn't respond, because... I went upstairs to walk around the building. In general, when we came face to face with them, it was already difficult to explain what we supposedly wanted in an amicable way) It was not possible to come to an agreement with them, and we were escorted to the exit. The security guys, both big and goofy, escorted us out in a surprisingly civilized manner, without even swearing.
So we weren’t able to climb thoroughly, but we weren’t particularly upset, since we’d already been there and didn’t expect to find anything new.
In general, we ended up with the wrong guard, but experience tells us that there are usually no problems with them.
Shot on Fujichrome Velvia 100F
Many people want to go there, but we went!
The most famous “unfinished building” in Moscow.
Why "the most"? Firstly, because it is gigantic: 100 thousand square meters. Secondly, because it is wildly expensive: $100 million was invested in its construction. Thirdly, his story is scandalous and even detective. And fourthly, the building is unusually impressive: a futuristic composition of beveled volumes lined with mirror glass. No wonder he has several nicknames: “blue crystal” or “blue tooth”.
For Moscow in the early 90s, this was a genuine breakthrough. There were no buildings here that were entirely mirrored, or glass pieces of such radical shapes. Although this trend has existed all over the world for a long time and has managed to acquire the flavor of commercial architecture. Academician Aganbegyan discovered the immediate source of inspiration in Italy, it was an office building built by Luciano Perini. Academician, then a great strength, wanted to build something similar in Moscow for his Academy of National Economy.
The classic of Soviet modernism, Yakov Belopolsky, took up the matter, who (together with the young architect Nikolai Lyutomsky) significantly transformed the original idea, taking it away from the banalities of Euro-modernism to almost Suprematist forms. Of course, if you look at it, there is nothing supernatural in the architecture here, the move is the same everywhere: different volumes are assembled, and then a certain segment is cut off at the top of each. However, the themes that emerged - for example, the grotesque image of a pitched roof - were very funny and anticipated many attempts to modernize national forms (by Eric van Egerath in particular).
The building, located next to the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station, fit perfectly into the modernist landscape of the 60s and 70s and became, thanks to the novelty of its forms and cladding, a noticeable landmark. Alas, its further fate was tragic; it stands virtually without a roof, rotting - and at any moment it will disappear from the face of Moscow.
The security guard escorted us to the stairs, along which we immediately went up to the 5th floor; we hadn’t taken any photos before.
At the top left you can see a red window, next to which there is an exit to one of the roofs.
Look down.
In some places the curb is knee-deep, not a very pleasant feeling. The guard also warned that you could fall into the elevator shaft... :)
There is a lot of garbage everywhere, the building has been abandoned for 15 years.
Everyone decided to go to the roof.
First we went to the wrong floor and found this window. In general, there is nothing to photograph inside; it’s the same on all floors.
We found an exit to the roof, it turned out to be on the 8th floor. A look back.
Almost a continuation of the previous photo on the right side.
And also, since our people exit through glass, before and after exiting onto the roof, there are heaps of broken glass.
At the bottom left you can see piles of glass and our “entrance”.
Everything on the roof was overgrown, from moss and grass to small bushes and trees.
There are even mushrooms! And there is also the presence of civilization, and a very recent one at that.
The glass in the first photo. Previously, apparently, they climbed through it until they cut another entrance :)
And just like that. Cute, right?)
Houses on Lobachevsky Street, as well as the 31st city hospital.
On the left in the photo there is a small superstructure, there are several of them, we climbed into one of them.
Nothing fancy, on the second floor there are cabinets for equipment and a bunch of scattered wires.
And this is the landscape behind the legs. Entrance to the Academy of National Economy and MIREA.
We begin to move back to the hole in the window to rise higher.
Let's go inside. We look for the stairs and go up the floor, looking for something interesting.
We walked through the floors, somewhere up to 9, but didn’t find anything interesting. We started to climb further, and on the stairs between 9 and 10 (I may be slightly wrong with the numbers), there was a barricade of ventilation pipes, about 2 meters high. It’s good that there was a small reinforcement ladder there. At first it was scary to climb over, because it was completely dark and it was not clear what this barricade was there for and what was underneath it, but then they finally decided to do it. By the way, in front of the barricade, on the wall of the stairs was written in chalk “GO BACK!” :)
On many floors the picture is something like this.
Who, how and why does this is unknown. Apparently people have nowhere to put their energy. If only they would direct it in a peaceful direction... Everyone would live well in Rus')
The view from the windows is basically this...
We walked along this floor to the other side of the building. Almost nothing has changed.
MIREA in the sun.
We decided not to walk around the floors anymore, because it was the same everywhere. The layout is the same, the garbage is the same. In general, we wanted to go up to the roof. There were no more problems with this. The only thing is the 22nd floor up the stairs in the dark.
There is a huge winch on the roof, under which there is a hole with garbage - one beer bottles and cans of cocktails. At first we took pictures carefully, then we climbed onto the winch.
The winch itself.
A piece of the roof on the lower right and a view of the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station. The large white house on the left is the new building "Elena".
Several photos from another camera, so they differ in both quality and resolution.
Bus depot, followed by a market. On the right is also a new building, which, in my opinion, does not fit anywhere at all.
Construction site near MIREA, Gazprom building. View of Vernadsky Avenue towards Lobachevsky.
Closer.
"Crosses" on Koshtoyants Street, Moscow State University and other famous new skyscraper buildings in the background.
Well that's all, thanks for your time! :)
To complete one of the most famous long-term construction projects in Moscow, the Zenit educational and business center next to RANEPA in the southwest of Moscow, the Russian government will allocate 8.7 billion rubles. The project is planned to be completed in 2021
Zenit Training and Business Center (Photo: Lori)
The Russian government has decided to complete the construction of the famous glass skyscraper near the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station in Moscow. The building at 82 Vernadskogo Ave., building 5, is proposed to be included in the Federal Targeted Investment Program for 2017 and the planned years 2018 and 2019. Complete the reconstruction project worth RUB 8.7 billion. planned for 2021. Information about this is contained in the bill on federal budget for these years.
The materials for the draft budget indicate that funding is allocated according to the state program “Development of Education” for 2013-2020. Construction of a building “located on the same plot of land with the main campus of RANEPA ( Russian Academy national economy and civil service under the president. — RBC), will almost completely solve the problem of shortage of academy space in Moscow,” the explanation states. In addition, the completion of the reconstruction will allow “to eliminate the damage caused to the architectural appearance of the city.”
Academic unfinished construction
The decision to build the Zenit business center was made back in 1989. The initial project assumed that courses in international business would be held here for students of the Academy of National Economy (the name of the university before the reorganization). The project was initiated by the rector of the academy, Abel Aganbegyan, who agreed to implement a large-scale project with the Italian company Valany International.
According to the development plan in a 20-story multifunctional complex with an area of more than 100 thousand square meters. m was planned to be located five star hotel for 300 rooms, retail space, conference hall, gym, restaurant and underground parking for 400 cars. About 35 thousand sq. m was planned to be allocated for offices, and 15 thousand sq. m. m should have been occupied by the business school itself. The building, for the appearance of which the famous Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky was responsible (he also worked on the building of the Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue and the monument to Yuri Gagarin on Leninsky Prospect), was a giant crystal covered with reflective mirrors.
Valany International, which became the general contractor for the construction, raised a loan of $50 million with guarantees Soviet government. Construction began in 1992, and within two and a half years it was planned to put the facility into operation. However, by the time the building was 80% ready, at the end of 1994, the anti-mafia operation “Clean Hands” took place in Italy. As a result, almost the entire management team of Valany International was accused of collaborating with the Sicilian mafia, the company’s accounts were frozen, and at the same time the construction of a training complex in Russia was suspended.
The debt for the unfinished Zenit and other Soviet obligations became part of negotiations between VEB and the Paris Club of creditors in 2001. A year later, in 2002, the Russian government transferred VEB's commercial business, which included the Zenit lending business, to VTB. In turn, the Ministry of Finance in 2004 included the demand for this loan in its claim against OJSC “ graduate School international business", arresting the Zenit building, which was on the balance sheet of the GSMB. The latter received the facility on the orders of Abel Aganbegyan.
After many years of arrest, last year the facility was transferred to RANEPA, which allowed the construction to be unfrozen, Vedomosti wrote.
Educational only
Unlike the original project, the new one does not provide space for a business center, RANEPA Vice-Rector Igor Danilov told RBC. “Usable space will be divided approximately equally between the hotel and classrooms, he said. — At the same time, the price includes all finishing and modern equipment building, as well as a complete replacement of the building’s cladding.” The final distribution of areas and the appearance of the building will be clear only after the design is completed, Danilov noted. According to him, a study of the building's load-bearing structures, carried out over the past year and a half, has proven that they are in excellent condition, and the skyscraper can be completed. “However, final conclusions will be drawn only after a detailed study,” he says.
At one time, the construction of this facility was one of the most advanced, but, unfortunately, it was never completed, laments chief architect UNK Project Bureau Yuliy Borisov. “As a result, the city received one of the most famous long-term construction projects,” he says. “The fact that the project will still be completed will have a positive impact on the appearance of the city.” At the same time, the architecture of the complex looks modern and quite appropriate for this part of the city, the architect concluded.
The press service of the capital's Construction Complex did not answer RBC's questions.
