Palace of the Republic 

Location: Chisinau, Moldova

Completed: 1984

Architects: Ivan Zagoretsky, Alexander Shevtsov, Mikhail Orlov and Stanislav Makarchuk

Former name: Friendship Hall

Genre: Modernist, Soviet architecture, former USSR

Palace of the Republic Chisinau Moldova-50

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