Why Russia Built a Skyscraper in the Middle of Nowhere

[@TheB1M]

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[@philbrown5516]

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[@MrWeedWacky]

12km from the center of St. Petersburg is not in the middle of nowhere... LOL

[@paulus_primus]

In the middle of nowhere??? It's Lahti, Saint-Petersburg, the Capital of the Empire, you kids.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

What is the tallest building just counting the usable space, and not spires, or radio.TV antennas, etc.

[@adamradziwill]

Muscovy has NEVER BEEN part of EUROPE, its an oriental empire. The origin of 🇷🇺Moscovy lies in the bloody degradation of Mongolian slavery"semi-Asiatic" menace to "Europe" and "civilization ... the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, Karl Marx (1856-57/1873)​

[@TheLaXandro]

Gazprom initially wanted to build it in the middle of the historical city center. People of St Petersburg told them to fuck off to the outskirts with their huge glass corn, and in an unprecedented for an essentially government corporation move, they did exactly that.

[@ain92ru]

As a person who grew up in St.-P. and lived there back then, the political situation was very different. A decade later it wouldn't have been possible. Also, it was not just because of the views: the archeological complex of the Swedish fortress/town still remains at the exact place of the formerly planned Okhta Center

[@TheFairwayPLAY]

Это правда. Этот небоскреб даже не открылся до сих пор. Он просто стоит и всё, при этом потратили миллиарды рублей на его строительство. Деньги как всегда потратили впустую. Небоскреб совершенно никак не подходит к городу.

[@unvergebeneid]

Good on them! Glad to hear the people of St. Petersburg at least stand up to preserve their own historical city center. Now if only they would've done the same for Odessa....

[@varyab1697]

Sadly, as of 2024 the construction is now ongoing right at this hugely important historical site. And it shows how much exactly putin&co care about preserving history etc (now that they don't have to save face anymore)

[@alex_gaimar]

@@unvergebeneid well if Gazprom wanted to build this skyscraper in the city centre in 2022 or now, they wouldn't be able to protest anymore and it would have been built there

[@niiinaa]

I'm not sure "Middle of Nowhere" is accurate when there's the city of St. Petersburg right next to it. Several shots in this video show massive housing blocks within walking distance of the tower. Sure, it's not in the city center but come on.

[@floydtron]

100% - it's pure clickbait.

[@TheFairwayPLAY]

Этот небоскреб до сих пор не открылся. Он просто стоит и всё, при этом потратили миллиарды рублей на его строительство. Деньги как всегда потратили впустую. Небоскреб совершенно никак не подходит к городу.

[@ameykulkarni6460]

Just hatered towards Russians. Typical Western mindset

[@d_n_u]

​@@TheFairwayPLAY tbh gold move investing the billions in real estate and not in weapons, though i doubt the russian government Sees it that way

[@Chris-pt6hh]

it's weird to put the tallest building in europe next to open fields on the outskirts of the city. skyscrapers are designed to solve denisty issues. for a building of this scale, it's basically the middle of nowhere.

[@lukekor]

How can "Moscow City" be away from public transport when it has literally three metro station just beneath it, a train station nearby (literally across the street) and water transportation means near by (like ferries) not to mention the myriad of bus stops all around it? Ah bad knowledge tztztztz *Henry Cavill chuckles*

[@smalltime0]

Also said the Gazprom tower is 12kms from St. Petersburg city centre... which is not a thing. The older historic part of the city is on low lying islands, the newer parts are all in districts

[@RavenFork24]

Bro Moscow has like the 3rd biggest metro in the world with 21 subway lines and the longest one in the world this guy is an idiot

[@monsieurkot5858]

Because its that another propaganda video made by a westerner.

[@PhilippSeven]

He said: at start.

[@PyromaN93]

​@@PhilippSevendoesn't make any sense. Southern outskirts of St. Pete is ≈25km far from historic center, for example. City's area is 1450km², about half is builttoo freakin dence.

[@creounity]

Lol Saint Petersburg is Russia's "2nd capital city", how on Earth is that called "in the middle of nowhere"? Are you nuts?

[@johnmcentegart007]

Because if some British guy says it. Then it must be correct.

[@greasher926]

Because the skyscraper isn’t built in the city center but way out on the outer edge. It would be like if Miami built a super tall skyscraper in the Everglades. But honestly that’s for the best. Locals were not fans of bulldozing their historic city center to make way for big glass vanity tower.

[@imyarek]

@@greasher926 I've been to Saint P and Petergof (historic place outside of the city) and it actually looks kinda pretty from far away - a giant landmark that can be seen from anywhere.

[@daveotuwa5596]

It is not supposed to be called the middle of nowhere unless it is in a rural Siberian area. Siberia does not have as many majour ciiyz as the European side, where the capital is.

[@rayofsun64]

Correct s Petersburg a huge vibrating city

[@EmirRadkevich]

I lived in Moscow 7 years and know the city well. There are two big mistakes about Moscow city in the video: 1. There were apartments blocks in the place of modern Moscow city in the 90s and even 50 years ago, so it was not a wasteland. It was never a part of city center though, just another residential block. 2. There is a ton of public transportation to/from Moscow city pretty much everywhere. 3 subway lines, 1 on-ground light railway system and multiple bus lines. And it is a misconception that it is in the middle of nowhere. It is not that far from the city center. You can check it in Google maps.

[@sachemofboston3649]

3 subway lines honestly isn't that much for a city as big as Moscow. Boston is only a fraction of the size of Moscow and we have 4 subway lines, 7 if you include the Green Line diverging into 4 separate lines.

[@EmirRadkevich]

@@sachemofboston3649 I'm talking about one specific spot in the city -- Moscow city complex. Overall, there are about 15 lines in the Moscow subway system.

[@TheLaXandro]

@@sachemofboston3649 Moscow Metro has effectively 20 lines as of now. 3 lines are just ones that come to the skyscraper district.

[@BigKokka]

He means not Moscow as city. There are bunch of skyscrapers in the Moscow, which all together called moscow-city. ​@@sachemofboston3649

[@sachemofboston3649]

@@TheLaXandro oh okay, that’s pretty good for a newly developed district.

[@maxihohlik2333]

This video contains a lot of factual mistakes. First and foremost, the building is NOT in the miidle of nowhere. Yes, it is located much further from the city centre than it was originally planned, though the map in the video is completely wrong about the position of the said centre. But it is still a habitated city district, and the reason it was moved there is public outcry. Saint Petersburg is a very european city, as you can guess from the name, and its residents mostly share the european values in the regards of architecture, city landscape preservation and scale etc. So the gazprom had to move it outwards but also made the tower higher. I'm positive nobody likes clickbaits. Second of all, vanity height is MUCH less that the video visually tries to tell us. The functional height is 378 metres, not 345, and you can easily understand what percentage it is just by LOOKING at the tower - though the spire was initially supposed to look akin to the glass, in reality it is distinguished by the grey colour and is VERY noticeable. Creators of the video specifically chose the early render, presumably one of the very first ones, in which the unhabitable space is not distinct, so that the viewers could not notice that the infographics are completely false and exaggerated. B1M simply tried to push the idea that the tower is somewhat "fake" and is just a decoration, a show-off, which is true to some extent, but why manipulate the data? People in the comments have already spoken on the Moscow city "lack of connection" so I'm not really going to get into it. But the reports of it being half-empty at some times just AGAIN try to create the impression of it being a useless decoration. Yes, at some point the buildings could be empty, for example in 2008 financial year, but right now - the demand is through the roof for both residential and office spaces, and developers are trying to put every little plot of land to use. If I'm not mistaken, there are three large projects in different stages of completion there right now, and ALL of them are higher that any tower in Europe. I am very dissapointed with the bias and jaundice of this video and I did not expect that from one of my favourite construction channels

[@tsv83]

Those are not mistakes, it is propaganda

[@900108Chale]

Well said, TX for the clarifications.

[@pavelkroll]

Замечу, что в видео дольше показывали Лондон, Париж, Милан и Рим. Хотя в ролике логично было бы показать центр Петербурга с высоты. В Лахте шпиль- навершие тоже будет задействован, там будет находиться самая высокая смотровая площадка в Европе

[@zemstafreda]

The sheer idea of skycrapers is to build tall because there are little land you can use and/or the land is extremely expensive. Building a skyscraper having literally single-family houses behind the fence is to show off.

[@adjunctbuffalo4907]

They never done a proper video telling about Moscow City Skyscrapers yet. What do you expect from them?

[@РайанКупер-э4о]

7:07 «Lack of connection to public transport» Dude, are you for real? There are more metro stations there than on some lines! There are two main hubs - «Moscow city», that connects to Moscow Central Circle, Diameter 1 and Diameter 4 and the line 4a; and the second hub, «Delovoy Tsenter» («business center»), there a stations on 4a line (again, this line has two stations inside the district), 8a line and now being built 18 line. If this isn't well connected, I don't know what is.

[@m_nikitin]

To be honest, the Moscow-City problem with "a lack of connection to public transport" has been resolved like for at least two years now, when its metro station was connected to the Moscow Central Circle (huge part of Moscow Metro system).

[@TheRoweros]

Lie

[@m_nikitin]

@@TheRoweros lol

[@austinrogge1771]

That's true. There are actually even 2 lines connecting the business district depending if people want to go north or south.

[@austinrogge1771]

@@TheRoweros Do some research bro. 3 metro stations connecting 2 different lines. Station: Mezhdunarodnaya Station: Delovoy tsentr Station: Vystavochnaya

[@balto8111]

​@@austinrogge1771 👍

[@vkdrk]

''In the middle of nowhere'' 12km from the city centre...That's like saying Heathrow Airport (28km from the city centre) is in the middle of nowhere because it isn't in the middle of the city... I like your videos but some of those titles are plain clickbaits. You recently called Amsterdam's airport ''the worst airport in Europe'' and then changed it to ''Europe's most important airport'' after people complained.

[@haj5856]

Agree, besides your point about Amsterdam's airport. It literally is the worst airport in Europe. Schiphol / Shithole same same.

[@linkin20la]

It's 1 mile from the closest subway station and it already has a train line connection. Countries don't build subway lines to the middle of nowhere B1M.

[@chazzyb8660]

And Heathrow was literally in the middle of nowhere when built, and still is a long way from the centre of London, even though rail links have considerably improved.

[@vkdrk]

@@chazzyb8660 Maybe 80 years ago, it was, but you wouldn't call Heathrow a place "in the middle of nowhere" today. The same goes for this tower. It's in the outskirts of a large (5.5 mil) city, but it's definitely not in the middle of nowhere.

[@onlineo2263]

You build airports where the land is cheap, you build skyscrapers where the land is expensive. So city centre is usually for skyscraper. Airport on the outskirts of big city is also usual.

[@BlueBird-q8k]

When i read the title i expected some where in Siberia I said Perm maybe but damn St Petersburg???

[@prabuddhaghosh7022]

For B1M anyplace the British didn't colonize is middle of nowhere

[@marcinb4647]

@@prabuddhaghosh7022 There, there. Enjoy your modi-flavoured freedom

[@Radbot776]

“But but but the Russian have ran out ammo and are using shovels” Mi6

[@route55qatar]

@@Radbot776 Yeah...that bitsch Von Der Leyen was mad on "a gas station country".

[@NikitaShabanov99]

Perm is not in Siberia and more than 1 million people live there

[@georgeealien]

"That's actually why many supertalls aren't just rectangular blocks" Looking at you, 432 Park Avenue.

[@celestinevalan7566]

That building is an abomination to the New York City skyline. I thought it might grow on like the Twin Towers but nope it's still bad especially next to icons like the Empire State.

[@JL1009]

432 sways

[@woodwould]

it looks like something i could draw

[@JewTube001]

Like, that's a safety deposit box building - nobody actually lives there. It's for foreign people storing wealth in NYC.

[@antoniousai1989]

That building is not rectangular though, it has open sides and a weird interaction with wind through its holes in some of the floors.

[@pdmacguire]

This is cheesy clickbait. The building is in St Petersburg not the middle of nowhere. It is surrounded by the construction of the new business district.

[@ilaser4064]

Only need to look at China's ghost cities to know construction is only half the battle.

[@xezmakorewarriah]

bro it's basically on the corner of spb i live here it's literally next to some forest

[@JaKingScomez]

@@ilaser4064ehh do not see a living breathing city even is the stock footage

[@ИванГригорьев-л5ы]

​@@xezmakorewarriahНе какой-то лес. Юнтоловский заказник. Вблизи мегаполиса можно почувствовать себя в глубокой тайге. Мне нравится ходить туда фотографировать птиц.

[@СергейРысь-ю9ч]

​@@ilaser4064 Take a look at these "ghost cities" now. Full of people. Full of shops. Something that western protagonists would not tell you.

[@NikitaShabanov99]

Informativeness - 4/10 Reliability of information - 3/10 Propaganda - 8/10 Unbiasedness 0/10

[@АндрейКазанцев-ы8м9ь]

А что не так?

[@АндрейКазанцев-ы8м9ь]

Теперь и мне стало понятно, просто начало ролика было озвучивание фактов, а потом полилась пропаганда.

[@assoztube]

Hahahaha

[@vladsnape6408]

I would say Propaganda is also 0/10. What do you expect, B1M is British, indocrinated by British mainstream media. Proper, correct information is available, but some people prefer to believe whatever propaganda their governments dish out, because thinking for themselves is just too much work.

[@dvv18]

The huge business center in Moscow sits right on top of a couple of Metro stations and next to the urban rail "Center Ring". There are plenty of public transportation options there.

[@KateeAngel]

The map is showing a wrong place. And the skyscraper is built in the second largest city in the country with more than 5 million people. "Middle of nowhere" lol Bad clickbait. Dislike

[@tomislav982]

Great video, but since I was invloved in construction, a small correction. Usable space goes to approx 370 meters (observatory at level +357 and maintenance - BMU above it). So unusable space is just below 100 meters)

[@7415_Gamer]

Thanks for the correction. It's good to visit the comments section.

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

Wow. It's a great-looking building but... no way you'd get away with building a super-tall in America with so much unusable space. In America we'd shoehorn a McDonald's & a nail parlor into EVERY available space 🤣👍.

[@7415_Gamer]

@@Pat_Springleaf Whatever you find wrong in any video, do point it out. Some of us are keen on learning the right things.

[@Peizxcv]

And then on the next video he gush over being on top of Merdeka 118, the building with 162m of vanity height 😑

[@210Artemka]

You haven't answered the question in the title. I live in Saint Petersburg and I have the answer: They were going to build it right next to the city center (10-15 min drive). You mentioned the shape of the castle, but you haven't told why this shape. They've chosen it because they were going to build it where the old Swedish castle of Nyenschantz was located (older than Saint Petersburg itself). But locals protested it because it will "break the outline of the city", "spoil the view on historic buildings" and "cause a traffic collapse". Now Gazprom builds business/shopping hub on this location. A know it because I used to live next to this location.

[@TheAveDavid]

Moscow City business centre has an underground metro station built right under it and opened in 2008. As of 2024 it has 3 stations. How is does it have a ‘lack of connection to public transport’?

[@rotors_taker_0h]

I think he meant to say that it lacked connections back in the day when first parts of the projects were complete.

[@anthonyginsbrook]

@@rotors_taker_0h It is not completed yet

[@muddwhistle7833]

Clickbait, 3.8 million people live directly near and around it

[@Can-not.to-can]

St. Petersburg has nearly 6 million people

[@vt20247]

Clickbait....it's not in the middle of nowhere...more like in the edge of nowhere.

[@jarednovel]

never lie even when it is not necessary

[@LordDavid04]

Surrounded by slums.

[@ridass.7137]

not even the Europe

[@Behemoth29]

And by middle of nowhere, you mean in Europe's fourth largest city 😂

[@ДмитрийПолежаев-ь7м]

Имеется ввиду, что он построен на окраине города.

[@ridass.7137]

ruzzia is not Europe lol

[@MikhailTeplensky]

@@ridass.7137Crazy how the russians country started in europe

[@donkeydik2602]

6th if you count metro areas

[@mdavidson5883]

Nowhere around other high rises mostlikey. Misunderstanding in wording.

[@HRC294]

12km from centre of St Petersburg is not middle of nowhere!

[@AD-hq2uz]

@HRC294 if you go to Russia it is.

[@ameykulkarni6460]

Just hatered towards Russians. Typical Western mindset

[@Hitori-h9g]

​@@AD-hq2uzit's a large city, the park and beach near that skyscraper gets crowded during festivals and holidays. Locals go there on the weekend to take a walk and see the gulf of the Finland. It's definitely not a middle of nowhere

[@E93dg]

It def feels like it

[@googleevil]

honestly, it is right in asshole center. you can't even visit it due to Russian government restrictions.

[@dmitribolshov996]

In the picture for the video, you showed a piece of a geographic map and the location of Lakhta Center. You drew a point and an arrow 400 kilometers east of the actual location of the object. What kind of illiterate fact-checking is this? You placed the point on Lake Ladoga, while St. Petersburg and Lakhta Center are located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Shameful geographers.

[@ElenaKozyreva]

This video is not about buildings, but about vanity amid the decline from sanctions. "Eating hedgehogs" for the third year..)

[@JanZeuner]

Not to forget St Petersburg is not located in Europe.

[@_nnn_nnn_]

> in the middle of nowhere > shit ton of 10-15 floor houses across the river > 20 min walk from the nearest metro station

[@Calzaghe83]

oh yah all those people that swim across the river everyday.

[@aaronkamakaze2967]

Do you live in St. Petersburg? A 20-minute walk to a metro station from the largest building I europe is essentially the middle of nowhere. Most people in St. Petersburg are not going to go out of their way to use this building. Seems like a lot of non Russians are very passionate and very wrong at the same time.

[@_nnn_nnn_]

@@aaronkamakaze2967 I am Russian and although I do not live in St.Petersburg, I've been on vacation there several times, including this month. That's why I'm so adamant on Lakhta not being "a middle of nowhere". I've walked 20 minutes from metro on my own foot to get there (that's why I wrote that part), and there was a lot of people just roaming around and enjoying the scenery (mostly tourists and stay at home moms, cos it was like 13:00-14:00 at a work day). Yeah, most natives won't go there regularly, and that's because most natives don't work at Gazprom (Lakhta is Gazprom headquarters, not some kind of a suburban mall). And guess where natives also do not go to a lot? The city center. It's filled with literal crowds of tourists and every business tries to capitalize on them, so the prices on everything are prohibitively high, there's nowhere to park a car, almost no office buildings are situated there, so not much people go there to work. If locals do not go somewhere, it doesn't mean it's a middle of nowhere. And keep in mind the whole Lakhta complex is not finished, there's still construction going on (not the skyscraper but the side buildings), most of the buildings are closed from the public and the community center is not open, so i assume it will be more populated when it finally opens. (BONUS: I present you a true middle of nowhere within St.Petersbirg borders - 60.075643, 30.236475, street view is available on Yandex maps, not sure about Google maps. 1 h 20 min by foot and 50 min by the means of public transport to the nearest metro station, and yet some people have to make that trip every day because they live there)

[@nyashaumer3055]

@@aaronkamakaze2967 around this place main road around the city named KAD and near western speed diameter. 15-20min by step from metro or 4-5min by scooter. In places like this always work people with cars and more important easy road by car and if you look you can find that. Becouse two main speed roads in city coming right in this place what make it good place for buiseness center of city against midle part with small streets and parking places. And if it be in center of St. P. he destruct historical architecture and balance in city

[@the_lightbringer]

>10-15 floor houses More like 15-25 floor houses. Source: I lived there

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

In fact, the answer is simple. Before construction, there were many public discussions about the choice of location for the building, residents set a condition for Gasprom: the tower should not spoil the historical views of the old city. Thus, the point was found.

[@Artopolo]

The thumbnail shows the location incorrectly. It points not to the gulf of Finland, but to the lake of Ladoga - about 200 clicks to the east

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

A rare example of a beautiful skyscraper. And I love how they built it on the outskirts of the historic city.

[@volkerhartnegg8211]

As a matter of fact the most pathetic country wants to have the most beautiful skyscraper.

[@valentinaegorova4117]

​@@volkerhartnegg8211жалкий человечек, приведи а порядок центры Европы. Засрали бомжами и мусором. Не зря же окринских рабов переселили. Пусть убирают мусор

[@tubebreguet]

​​@@volkerhartnegg8211 It is pathetic but not the most pathetic one like... where are you from, exactly?

[@theflamingeagle572]

​@@tubebreguet The US... the country that has been slacking off for the last 30 years and has the least creative and least flashy designs.

[@horoshkoaleksandr273]

How is St Petersburg historic? It's only 300 years old

[@skyscraperfan]

Moscow City actually has great connections to public transport. Three metro lines and two regional rail lines. You can even reach it by ferry on the Moskwa. Quite a lot of space in that district is used just for stations. I was there last month and was very impressed. The district is very busy. Moscow as a whole has a lot of construction of buildings over 20 storeys. Probably more than any other city in Europe. It certainly beats London.

[@Northeast_Atlantic]

"Middle of nowhere" >Within St. Petersburg *_Colossal_** clickbait here*

[@giraffestreet]

Outskirts of St Petersburg

[@JewTube001]

@@giraffestreet Outskirts of a metro area...that's far from nowhere.

[@ameykulkarni6460]

Just hatered towards Russians. Typical Western mindset

[@Kiwi2703]

And also literally just next to a very densely populated residential area. Giant ass clickbait.

[@Da...]

What else did you expect from B1M?

[@ТимофейСтепанов-ю1ч]

When did 4 metro lines and 18 stations become something small? Or do you think this is not enough for the Moscow skyscraper district? Which occupies less than 1 square kilometer.

[@ТимофейСтепанов-ю1ч]

Und beachten Sie. This is without taking into account the Moscow Central Diameter, which is not the metro. Speaking of the advancement of the Moscow metro. In Moscow, there are a total of 240 stations within the Moscow Ring Road, excluding ground stations. On each of them, payment using a face is available, that is, using biometrics. ¼ Of these stations, these are masterpieces of ancient architecture. Yet ¼ These are just very clean metro stations. Which are similar to the same New York, but read, more comfortable and cleaner. And the rest ½ This is a masterfully executed hyper modern, almost futuristic design. Behind the Moscow Ring Road, there are mainly overhead stations. And some underground. A total of 30. Each of them is a unique place in its own way. The fare is less than $1. The speed during rush hours is exactly 80 km per hour. No rush hour 50 Km per hour. Constant interval less than 90 Seconds. During rush hour and less than 1 minute. All stations are clean. There is Internet both at the stations and inside the trains. It's warm everywhere. And there is an option to charge the phone for free. Also inside the train, everything is clean and made in a modern design. At the same time, passenger traffic is more than in the New York subway. )) I also ask you to take into account the fact that Moscow This is the only city in which there are two FULL-FLEDGED circle lines. And the speed of metro expansion in Moscow is exactly 3 or even 5 new stations opened per year.

[@givi9266]

I was there in 2021 for the euros and it was quite impressive. You can even see it even from Peters Palace. From city center it takes about 30 min with the metro to get there.

[@samanjj]

Some facts thanks - 30 mins is a fair bit out

[@realracing3specter295]

it looks a lot taller in real life... with these drone shots, it looks a bit small... best experience is to actually visit this tower...

[@MrTwix33]

10km from the city center of a major city is not "middle of nowhere"

[@highdefinist9697]

Well, it kind of is, imho. In order for skyscrapers to be functional buildings at all, as in, have lots of "stuff" in a compact space, they also need to be easily reachable - otherwise, if it takes a lot of effort to reach the skyscraper, you don't really gain anything from its compactness, compared to having the same floor space spread out over multiple buildings, but closer to the city center. As such, this seems like a typical vanity building... And, there isn't necessarily anything wrong with that, but considering the video also mentioned that an unusually large fraction of the floor space is not usable anyway, I don't really see the point in denying it.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Clearly English is not your first language. :(

[@MavetSomnus]

10km is literally 6.2 miles. It's barely outside of the city, I live in America and I have to drive 30 miles just to get to work and Im not even in the "middle of nowhere"​@@highdefinist9697

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

12 is thought

[@MrTwix33]

The real problem is the lack of public transport to that area, not the distance itself. Central London to Canary Warf takes just as long by car (~45mins). But they have a great underground system which cuts the travel time in half.

[@denisgut]

It's not an outskirts, it's one of the expensive neighborhoods in the city. It also one of the most modern. This neighborhood was built in 70-80s and the peak in construction has been on 2010s.

[@homematvej]

The reason why St. Petersburg doesn't have more skyscrapers is because it's built on a swamp. It's a giant swamp, that's why it's shorter that burj khalifa, but required more concrete and engineering marvels. otherwise it would sink

[@pavelkroll]

Наверное я вас удивлю, но рядом с Лахтта построят еще более внушительные небоскребы 555м и 703м

[@margo7059]

Нет, причина в том,что центр города - это исторические здания. Панорама Санкт-Петербурга внесена в список ЮНЕСКО. Поэтому строить нужно так,чтобы не разрушать историческое наследие.

[@Viddasala]

@@margo7059 Причина в совокупности причин. Строят не в центре, потому что линия горизонта и строят с бОльшим количеством цемента, потому что болото. Я тут живу.

[@francesco5254]

"It means that every floor is sligtly different to the one below it." Me, an Engineer: 💀💀

[@DeviilReaper]

'Middle of nowhere' is a stretch, firstly its 2 km from the nearest island of St. Petersburg, secondly its not 12 km away of the city centre, its 9 km (Winter Palace is considered the city centre).

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

I don't understand why this guy said that Moscow City has bad transportation. The public transportation system in Moscow is probably the BEST IN THE WORLD among megacities. I admit it as a Muscovite, although I scold the mayor for his bad attitude towards car owners.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Definitely not the best in the world. But fairly good, yes. I imagine the assessment considers many factors

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

@@RobespierreThePoof I would be grateful if you could name the best one.

[@susembkl]

@@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы Токио

[@Mira-pm3ni]

​@@susembklonce upon a time it was Tokyo . Not anymore .

[@juliancochran]

@@RobespierreThePoofNo it’s the best the world. Some regions of China rival it but if you used metro system in Moscow or St Petersburg you’ll love it.

[@bsw88]

What are you on about bro? There's heaps of transport to Moscow City, and there has been for the 3 years I've been here. The metro and public transport here in general is already incredible, yet they're constantly being expanded and improved. You'd think an engineering and infrastructure focused channel would do their research.

[@DB5652-v3r]

nice propganda. 12 km from city center is middle of nowhere.

[@Calzaghe83]

It's not propaganda to point out it's an outlier from all the other high rises in the city and stands the lone in the middle of nowhere.

[@pt3085]

@@Calzaghe83the are no high rises in Saint Petersburg anymore. But Lakhta center is a first skyscraper to start a business district in the area. The are plans to built 2 more skyscrapers higher. People were heavily against of construction of skyscrapers within the city center. That’s way constructions was moved to the area. And by Russian and Saint Petersburg sizes 12 km isn’t far away.

[@KingCovfefe]

That building is absolutely gorgeous.

[@alexos8741]

So, outside the G7 area, a suburb is called "the middle of nowhere 😂

[@LittleMissSmallPaw]

for a 460 meter tall building it practically is

[@maxihohlik2333]

@@LittleMissSmallPaw wdym it's one of the largest cities in europe 😭💀

[@elena__sh]

I’m a local of Saint Petersburg. We call it ‘corncob’ (кукурузина).

[@elena__sh]

The locals don’t like it very much, it sort of ruins the historical skyline

[@R.a.p.h.a.e.l.a]

@@elena__sh And that, right there, is why "Europe doesn't generally like skyscrapers much". I actually think the building is beautiful in and of itself, but I did wonder what sort of impact it has on its immediate environs -- and, given its height, its not-so-immediate environs as well. Your comment goes some way towards answering that question for me.

[@Da...]

​@@R.a.p.h.a.e.l.a Although it is still clearly visible from the historical center of St. Petersburg 😂

[@Silver_Prussian]

​​@@elena__shif it was built under any other administration you all would applauding it till your hands bled. Or maybe if it wasnt built people would b*tch and whine saying ,,why dont we have such modern architecture and only these old buildings" People in big cities are impossible to please

[@Kss62]

@@elena__sh I am local and I love this project. Locals are different

[@MrSlavikman]

Moscow city literally has 3 metro stations below it and a train station right outside it and a water fairy station to...less british propaganda.

[@RussiAashiq]

What do you expect from anglos

[@MironBleek]

Update from skyscrapercity - Gazprom began to build 2nd/3rd Lakhta towers just 2 months prior to this vid. Both 555m/703m are now under construction.

[@pavelkroll]

Это будет круто

[@Votjko]

Half of the video has nothing to do with building in the title and also has no value. It was made just to promote the sponsor.

[@Oliverii]

that is 94.7% of videos on youtube.

[@googleit1131]

That's basically every video on this channel and a supermajority of videos from other channels

[@loumcast]

This is more about pushing lies and western propaganda regarding Moscow's City Center than about the Lakhta building.

[@lilypower]

yup, still one of the best channels for large projects in my opinion, if not the best, many ither channels make every video 45+ minutes and i simply doesn't have that much time for some info of a foreign bulding projects that i'll probably never see in irl :)

[@huntedwumpus]

The reason they needed such an extensive foundation is because St. Petersburg is built on swamps. Imagine the havoc that years of freeze-thaw could wreak on such a building.

[@real.ilya_remov]

I haven't been to Russia in years and it was quite a shock to me to see this building was actually completed, as I only found out a few months back. The tallest structure in Europe is also in Russia, and that one is much older!

[@pjotrnygard1447]

Look at the centre of Moscow you'd think your in London, just without the wokeness and diversity

[@gavinathling]

@@pjotrnygard1447 Or the money. "Wokeness" is a weird thing to say about the part of the UK with the highest rate of religiosity. It also sounds like you're against being awake and aware of other people...

[@Emalo]

The tallest building is actually in Poland, it's called Varso tower 😀

[@pjotrnygard1447]

@@gavinathling London is turning a shithole imagine thinking having forgeiners outnumber your native population is a good thing

[@real.ilya_remov]

@@Emalo They mention it in the video and it's shorter than this one... Does your brain feel smooth?

[@ButteryBao]

For context, Manhattan itself is over 12km long, and if you put the "center of the City" as Wallstreet then Harlem and the Bronx are in the middle of nowhere. Could've called it "Europe's tallest and coldest skyscraper" or literally anything else. Other than that comment, and the wrong point on Moscow City not having any transit connections, this was a solid video. I'm curious how the salty air and cold temperatures will weather it over the years, but I guess time will tell. Honestly a great move on the part of the City to move their high rise construction out of their historic core to preserve the character. Hope it stays that way!

[@washoecreative595]

Paris did the same thing with La Defense.

[@cboy0394]

Harlem and the Bronx ARE in the middle of nowhere. That’s one of the reasons why no one that doesn’t live there goes there the other reason being that it’s the ghetto.

[@-Osiris-]

​@@cboy0394 Harlem is the middle of nowhere? 😂 Whatever you say bro

[@Pat_Springleaf]

air’s not too salty around the Gulf of Finland

[@pavelkroll]

Лондон уже загубил свой город, построив в самом центре небоскребы

[@kseniyav.orlova9221]

I live near this place. It’s one of the most densely populated areas in Saint Petersburg and one of the prettiest and expensive suburbs with very old historical remains scatted around

[@BARUtubbig]

Dislike for the clickbait. You could see this building basically anywhere from st Petersburg. This is not even close to being built in the middle of nowhere

[@smogy001]

Let alone he doesn't address why is it built there

[@SergeyDemidov]

Well, as pointed out in other comments, Lakhta center is not in the middle of nowhere - it resides in a bustling residential area and recently gained way more accessibility with a public transportation, thanks to the new subway station nearby. Indeed, the intention was initially to put it in the other side of the city but it would derail the historic landscape so it was moved to where it is now.

[@chocomalk]

Click bait 100%. The" middle of nowhere" is nowhere near this building.

[@MusehanaH]

The" middle of nowhere" is nowhere near this building....Awesomely state 😄

[@route55qatar]

When B1M thinks people are so stupid, people fight back.

[@arandompersonontheinternet4201]

Moscow City isn't really disconnected from transit infrastructure, getting to it is in fact fairly fast and easy. Though it is indeed far from the city centre, there are 2 overground railway stations, 2 metro stations which together connect to 3 metro lines, and there are plenty of buses too, there might even be tram connections (they are common in Moscow though I don't know for certain if they go there).

[@ivanvlasov8308]

The other reason is that the city center of St Petersburg and its skyline are under UNESCO protection. The Lakhta Center is too huge to place it near the city center, the old city skyline line will be completely broken. To be honest, even with the current arrangement, many people feel that the skyline is already broken

[@Blunt3021]

St Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

[@bengthyytiainen7030]

It's stolen from Ingeri !

[@seryyefi]

​@@bengthyytiainen7030so, by your "logic" ingeri owns St. Petersburg lol, what ?

[@bengthyytiainen7030]

@@seryyefi Well sunshine... That's a fact jack !

[@AlMan42]

Since when is an area abutting a city with a population of close to 6 million people and has a metro station serving that same city considered the "middle of nowhere"?

[@Dalisu87]

There’s literally a whole coastal city around it Fred

[@bpdbhp1632]

So a city of millions is the middle of nowhere? Pretty shitty from a channel that is pretty much about cities

[@annalehman93941]

Maybe he can't just think about russians as people. Pure European racism

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

Why the clickbait? It's a construction channel. People watch for the building part. They don't care where it is, especially if you lie about it. Quit after that dumb fib

[@klauskuhnast2394]

There is a free public observation deck at the top of the skyscraper at a height of 357 meters.

[@Oliverii]

can i see the drones well?

[@1Know1tHurts]

​​@@OliveriiYou can see the drones and you mom's ass from over there.

[@Tclans]

Kane lives! That an obelisk of light from the C&C universe.

[@PlasmodiumV]

Lakhta tower is very close to beautiful Gazprom Stadium which hosted a Fifa World cup semi final in 2018. I saw it on tv that time, looked good.

[@bengthyytiainen7030]

it's not !

[@lanhua810]

@@bengthyytiainen7030It will not ever

[@InTeCredo]

"Build it, and they will come" so says the American thinking...

[@TanyaLairdCivil]

"Build it, and they will come." "Indeed" - Ukrainian missile corps.

[@holtovhond]

@@TanyaLairdCivil so thats why ukrainians avoid building since 1991?

[@wizardmix]

And when Europe was dealing with famine, war, genocide, brutal dictatorships and failed monarchies during the first half of the 20th century, we did build it and they did come. "Our ways are superior to anyone else's (just ignore that we also have racism, imperialism, political strife and have barely been able to go more than a couple decades without a war somewhere within our borders)" so says the European thinking....

[@vibin_psilocybin]

I think that's from a movie about playing baseball in a corn field?

[@wizardmix]

@@vibin_psilocybin "If you build it, they will come." But it's an older phrase than than from "Field of Dreams."

[@mewosh_]

It's common for European cities to build a modern skyscraper district outside of the city centre... ...and then there's Warsaw

[@alexandersuvorov2002]

Warsaw had 90% of its city center destroyed during WWII.

[@mariusvanc]

@@alexandersuvorov2002 And? Europeans don't like massive towers in their city centres.

[@pdmacguire]

Paris an especially annoying but far from the only example

[@riemenscheider]

Warsaw and Frankfurt, both have beautiful skylines

[@nevrozzy]

Middle of nowhere? one of the largest cities in Europe...

[@DM-oi4tr]

Ruzzia is not in Europe, it in the middle of nowhere

[@holtovhond]

@@DM-oi4tr geography disagrees with your propaganda lmao

[@dvnk6971]

@DM-oi4tr lmfao

[@IslamBenfifi]

@@DM-oi4tr whatever helps you sleep at night

[@bengthyytiainen7030]

The name is Ingeri !

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

St. Petersburg is a beautiful city of old architecture, but this skyscraper is one of, if not the most beautiful skyscraper in the whole world. But I met someone from the city who says they hate skyscrapers. I don't know why, being the skyscraper is so far from the city. They have another skyscraper planned (it may be more beautiful) and I think it would be cool if they planned a dozen or more of these skyscrapers (some with larger ultramodern neighborhoods around them) spaced along the coast.

[@JewTube001]

Its like Australia, they dont like big buildings blocking the sun

[@samanjj]

It’s a big list - most modern and even first ever built skyscrapers are just stunning - this is a beautiful addition to the collection

[@Silver_Prussian]

Cause like any other big city st.petersburg has dumb libs who dont like anything unless it fits their own wierd pretentious and stupid expectations. Or they are just jealous.

[@Silver_Prussian]

​@@JewTube001but its outside the city center and it doesnt block anybody sun, some people are just impossible to please.

[@PrillaTakki]

It’s not “far from the city” it’s literally IN the city. Yes, near the border of the city but it’s only 20 min walk from the nearest metro station

[@Borisdelmar]

did you intentionally misplace the dot on the map in your thumbnail?

[@mickeyduvel]

Hardly in the middle of nowhere 😕1000 km north of Irkutsk is officially the middle of nowhere.

[@AZ-vv1rf]

the European mind does not comprehend such distances

[@misslily4610]

My apartment gives me a stunning view to the Lakhta center even though I live 12 km away of it. My daughter and I love to see what color the backlight of the tower is before going to bed. In winter, it is illuminated like a Christmas tree - in a green outline with white bright flashes. And right now I can see it's beeing cut with clouds aproximately in the middle of its height. So you can imagine how huge it is. And as a citizen of St. P I'm glad it was built there. No serious traffic to get to the spot to spend some time with a family and enjoy nice views of the Gulf of Finland and amazing sunsets 💔 Though, the parking lot could be bigger 😅

[@TiGGowich]

I love the design... and the fact that it is surounded by loads of empty space makes it look even cooler

[@1Know1tHurts]

What looks like forest and "empty space" has lots of houses built inside, there are apartment blocks 200 meters away and a subway station within walking distance.

[@arilinner9078]

These videos are shorter by the day, while the commercials get longer

[@ofam007]

Damn, quite dissapointed about this video, feels like just propaganda and clickbait. In one of my favorite channels.

[@craigwolfe249]

How? It's all facts?

[@pt3085]

@@craigwolfe249No

[@maximvf]

Not every day I open B1M and see the project through my window! Thanks. It's not nowhere. That city district is 750K of people, the whole city is 5.4M.

[@pt3085]

Moscow city isn’t empty. It is full of offices and apartments. And nowadays it has very good transport connection with 2 metro stations and 1 MCD station.

[@ikhlasng]

Y'all westerners gotta tone the hate towards the Russian down. So disappointed with this cheap ass clickbait.

[@bedandbreakfast4033]

Oklahoma is about to build tallest skyscraper in US. By this logic, it's middle of nowhere

[@pavelkroll]

Оклахома по сравнению с Петербургом это глуш

[@davidmkwambisijnr218]

Western media, how difficult is it to do a video about something Russian without succumbing to the need to mention oligarchs?

[@kjj26k]

How the f*ck does this not involve the oligarchs that built it??

[@Pat_Springleaf]

bro it’s literally built by Gazprom

[@KofaOne]

​@Pat_Springleaf bro I don't think they've mentioned the US oligarchs once when discussing western buildings

[@pt3085]

@@Pat_SpringleafGazprom is a state-owned company. It is not related to oligarchs at all.

[@AHTOIIIKA]

Russian largest company is Sberbank, not Gazprom

[@TOONS_TUNES]

Yes, Gasprom is #4, after Sberbank, Lukoil and Rosneft.

[@FalcoStarlight]

Thank you! The Russians built a really beautiful skyscraper in Sint-Petersburg, respect!! ❤

[@bengthyytiainen7030]

No respect to occupy !

[@jovanjovanovic7610]

How do you mean- in the middle of nowhere? Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world? It was Russian capital for decades also. I really don’t understand your idea.

[@Friend-eb8st]

I'm not Russian and I hate what they did in Syria but the video is presumably about a skyscraper not western talking propaganda on the Russian economy

[@margo7059]

А что плохого сделали русские в Сирии? Выгнали американцев и их прокси ИГИЛ.

[@спутник69]

After some shrinking in 2022 Russian economy grew a lot in 2023 and overcomed replacing it on the place of biggest European economy and 5th lagest in the world. In this a good growth is expected too as well as overpassing Japan and taking its place of 4th largest economy in the world by GDP

[@rosante9016]

I was there a month ago. The most beautiful place I've ever visited. It was a summer sunset and Saint Petersburg was perfect back then

[@hdufort]

Not in the middle of nowhere. It's prime real estate right at the edge of a major urban area.

[@Маракасек]

Небольшой факт, газ пром уже в этом месяце начинает закладывать фундамент для 2 новых небоскрёбов около лаха центра

[@volkerr.]

Kein Geld da. Das wird nicht mehr fertig gestellt werden 😅

[@Маракасек]

​@@volkerr.Денег у газ прома куры не клюют, за всё время его существования он заработал больше 1 миллиарда долларов, а так же если бы у компании не было бы денег на это они прямо сейчас не поставили там технику и не начали бы там закладывать фундамент P..S я сам из Питера я лично видел

[@volkerr.]

@@Маракасек muss ich erst mal Meine Frau fragen, damit die mir das übersetzt 😜🤷

[@kohnr3381]

@@volkerr. russophobic clown leave us alone

[@elfintrees]

0:18 it’s not city centre)

[@Morozilka12]

The narrator literally says that it's "12 kilometres beyond the city center"

[@PrillaTakki]

@@Morozilka12but they pointed city centre wrong. It’s 2-3 kilometres north-west on their map

[@alexmuriuki1634]

i thought this is a egineering channel not politics

[@ProfessorSprouts]

And you thought wrong. Lol

[@8eck]

"Even if there isn't much housing around it" - then turns the camera and shows two big residential areas with tons of houses... 😁

[@АртурКешишян-ф4г]

-Зяма, где, Вы, сшили себе этот шикарный костюм?- В Париже.- А, как далеко это от Бердичева?- Ну, пара тысяч киллометров.- Ну надо же: такая глушь, а так шьют!-

[@АртурКешишян-ф4г]

"Россия..ля-ля-тополя...вторжение..экономический спад...ля-ля-тополя. " если они не вставят это ВО ВСЕ СВОИ ВИДЕО, их что, местный ГорКом не утвердит? Не выдаст ТАЛОНЫ на доступ в KZbin? Жопа отвалится? Ваши варианты.

[@margo7059]

Точно! А я думала, что же это мне напоминает 😹

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

Dude ! Its in St.Peterburg. Not in"the middle of nowhere" ! Are you totally insane ?

[@ИванТихомиров-б1ш]

0:18 sir your understanding of Saint-P. city center is majorly flawed xd

[@aasarkisyan]

Реально))

[@danielgareth4205]

Deluding title, it's in St. Petersburg, the second biggest city

[@andreyshashkov7130]

very good video and I am definitely falling in love with your voice, but there's one significant inaccuracy - Moscow City was poorly connected to the city centre 20 years ago when they started construction but now it has FIVE metro stations on its territory and is probably the BEST served neighbourhood in Moscow in terms of transport

[@vladikdes]

Because the city center of St Petersburg is historical area and every building in the city shouldn’t crush the skyline

[@pure_truth]

Looks like the video was made in 2022 ...because as of today Russian GDP is fastest growing in EU ... So calm down haters

[@AZ-vv1rf]

Calling the outskirts of St. Petersburg "Middle of Nowhere" is a bit of a far stretch, don't you think?

[@philipedwardcrosbie2553]

A lot of subtle put downs by the narrator.

[@HenryBloggit]

I have never seen that view of Paris with the Chicago-like skyline of skyscrapers in my life. I had no idea Paris looked like that. I’ve only ever seen it from the other angle, all the low-rise buildings and the Eiffel Tower in the distance. You just blew my mind B1M

[@CrazyCanuckStallion]

Good video (as always), but thumbs down for the extremely mis-leading title