The Pobeda Cinema (the Cinema, for short) was constructed in 1957 to a design by Ivan Zholtovsky, the USSR's Meritorious Architect and a winner of the State Stalin Prize. The Cinema is a free-standing, rectangular building that features columns placed along the facade. The design of the building was based on that of a palace from an Italian town of Vicenza (by the 16th century architect Andrea Palladio); the building is a singular monument of an architectural style known as Stalin's Empire style.
Originally, the Cinema contained two auditoriums that seated 420 people each. The box-office and spectator lobby was decorated with distinctive, massive wrought chandeliers and moulding (by the way, the chandeliers were used in the production of the film War and Piece by Sergey Bondarchyuk that won the Oscar Award). The ceiling of the Cinema housed a shooting range.
In June of 2000, the Pobeda Cinema was closed for renovations. The constructors and restorers were assigned with the following task: to preserve the original architectural style of Stalin's epoch, while "painting" the gloomy Stalinist building with the southern Palladio air and combining the style with contemporary solutions in the field of design, materials and technical equipment.
Two auditoriums, the Red Auditorium and the Blue Auditorium, have been opened since 1st November 2000 in the completely redesigned and re-equipped Pobeda Cinema. Each auditorium seats 304 people and is equipped with the DOLBY DIGITAL sound equipment, sound-absorbing panels, a pearlescent screen (10 metres by 4.5 metres or 33 feet by 15 feet), extra-comfortable chairs featuring cup holders, and an air-conditioning system. The spectator lobby whose area is 350 square metres (3,770 square feet) contains the following:
– a coffee bar (60 seats);
– a fast-food snack bar and;
– a round stage of 3.5 metres (11.5 feet) in diameter that is equipped with theatre lighting and sound.
The box-office lobby contains a cloakroom. The building of the Cinema houses a bar called Svoy Sredi Svoikh ("At Home among Friends") and a beer restaurant called Pinta ("The Pint"). There is a car park by the Cinema.
The interior design was developed by Pavel Kaplevich, a famous Russian designer, theatre and cinema art director, fashion designer and producer.
Art design works by Leonid Kerpek's theatre manufacturing workshop.
Wall painting by teams led by Pavel Parkhomenko and Aleksey Sheboldayev. The restoration of the chandeliers was done by the Moscow Centre for Art Restoration.
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