The building of Moscow state university at Sparrow Hills. It is the largest university in Russia, Founded in 1755. After second world war era, Stalin ordered seven huge tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city. The Moscow University main building is by far the largest of these. It was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at the time of its construction, and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240m tall, 36 stories high. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms.