To make streets wider and for redevelopment in pre-war Moscow about 100 houses and buildings were moved. They were shifted together with lodgers and during the moving process plumbing, sewage etc. were still working.
Thus, for example, in January 1937, there was moved a laboratory house of a records factory in Aprelevka weighing 690 tons. It was followed by five small buildings preventing breakthrough of the Moscow river near Serebryanny Bor. Here specialists mastered complicated lines of the buildings shift – change of movement direction, turns. Here hydraulic jacks were used for the first time.
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‘Lubomirski Palace’ in Warsaw was not only moved but also rotated in 1970 using very similar techniques.
I’ve heard also about moving one church in Prague.
Is this taken from the movie Ocean’s Twelve?
I guess it’s worth it but it sure seems like a lot of work. After you move it, it’s still an old building with lots of problems.
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Mere 690 ton? Lubomirski Palace in Warsaw, moved and rotated in 1970, weight about 8000 ton.
It’s very good that you have noticed the difference between 690 and 8000 tons. But what about 1937 and 1970?
Thanks for asking.
I think Poland and other people-democratic countries were using in 1970 technology similar or slightly upgraded in comparison to this one from 1937, due to the technological delay caused by mass extermination of engineers & professors as well as separation from technology, knowledge and contacts with western world during soviet occupation in these countries.
Russians are so poor the have to move buildings…
Amazing!
In soviet Russia you move buildings… :fail:
in comparison to turning back the river direction this one seems poor
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Now that’s what I call an astonishing accomplishment, especially considering the year this took place.
When my mom was a youth in New York City, she said it was common to see multi-story buildings being moved across town on the roads. When our hospital expanded, several houses they bought were moved for miles.
I prefer the older buildings like those. They were built to last back then. Great pictures!
Wow. epic..
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