Госуда́рственный Кремлёвский дворе́ц (до 1992 года — Кремлёвский дворец съездов) — общественное здание, расположенное на территории Московского Кремля. Было построено по инициативе Никиты Хрущёва по проекту авторского коллектива под руководством архитектора Михаила Посохина. Предназначался для проведения съездов КПСС, также выполнял функции площадки для театральных постановок, концертов и других общественных мероприятий. Открылся 17 октября 1961 года XXII съездом партии.
Previously and unofficially known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский дворец съездов), is a large modern building inside the Moscow Kremlin.
The building was built at the initiative of Nikita Khrushchev as a modern arena for Communist Party meetings. The building replaced several heritage buildings, including the old neo-classical building of the State Armoury, and some of the back corpuses of the Great Kremlin Palace. This, and that the architecture of the projected building contrasted with the historic milieu resulted in quite an uproar, particularly after other historic buildings of the Kremlin, such as the Chudov and Ascension cloisters, had already been demolished during the Stalin era and laws, that were introduced by the mid-1950s, prohibited the demolishion of historic structures, making the construction in some ways illegal.
The construction work started in 1959 and the building was opened along with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on October 17, 1961. Over the years this was the main place for mass state events (particularly party congresses).
Presently it is used for official and popular concerts. American singers Mariah Carey, Tina Turner and Cher have played in the palace, as did Norwegian band A-HA and Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
