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# I don't know about you, but to me this 1967 photograph, showing the "book" towers going up on Novy Arbat, taken from the Church of the Saviour on Spasopeskovskaya Square, is a very sad sight
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ne-znaiu-kak-dlia-vas-a-dlia-menia-eto-ochen-grustnyi-kadr-1967-goda-s-vidom-stroiashchikhsia-na-novom-arbate-domov-knizhek-sdelannyi-ot-spasskoi-tserkvi-na-spasopeskovskoi-ploshchadi/
- Published: 2026-03-05T12:33:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Archive, Architecture, Moscow, Observations

I don't know about you, but to me this 1967 photograph, showing the "book" towers going up on Novy Arbat, taken from the Church of the Saviour on Spasopeskovskaya Square, is a very sad sight. They have no business being here; they ought to have been put up on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, or at least beyond Novinsky Boulevard