I just finished a fun and interesting book about Russia called Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev. In one fascinating part of the book he writes a lot about Moscow architecture. I’m going to write more on that later, but here I want to point out what sounds like the ugliest restaurant in the world. Pomerantsev writes:
“We were having dinner in the Sosruko restaurant, the town’s most famous, named after a local mythical hero, a sort of Hercules. The restaurant, twenty meters high and concrete, is in the shape of the head of a medieval knight, with helmet and huge moustache, perched on a hill above the town and lit up in neon green, the only building well lit aside from the new mosque.”
and he’s not exaggerating. Here are some photos of this lovely dining establishment:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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