To Fight

"One kilometer and two hundred meters—that height is considered ideal for a classic MRB: three hundred standard residential levels and twenty technical ones, higher floors where service premises were located, including ‘above-ground’ stations, and entertainment: theaters, restaurants, winter gardens, water parks, shopping centers—in short, everything needed to live for one hundred fifty thousand people, many of whom have never left their tall building in their entire lives. One kilometer and two hundred meters.

A romantic might think that from such a height, panoramic windows of the public areas must offer a magnificent view. But the beauty depended entirely on the building’s layout: from the windows of the MRB of the outer radius you really can enjoy a sense of space—especially on cloudless days. However, ‘Nirvana’ jutted out in the center of the residential area ‘Bugry,’ on the north edge of glittering St. Petersburg, and showed its residents only the neighboring MRBs: just as gray, rectangular, and faceless as it itself…"