Afremov Building, Heritage building in Krasnoselsky District, Russia.

The Afremov Building at Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street 19, building 1, is an eight-story apartment block designed by Osip Shishkovsky in the Art Nouveau style. Its facade is relatively plain, but decorative metal brackets sit under the cornice and oval "bull's eye" windows in the attics repeat the pattern of the entrance doors. The design echoes Hector Guimard's Castel Béranger in Paris.

Built in 1904–1905 by architect Osip Shishkovsky for merchant Fyodor Afremov, it was financed by a loan from the Moscow Credit Society. It was the city's first eight-storey building, and its appearance brought the words "skyscraper" and "tucherez" into use. Until the Nirnzee House was completed, it remained Moscow's tallest building. In Soviet times it housed the GIRD rocket-propulsion study group, where Sergei Korolev worked.

Muscovites nicknamed the eight-storey block "neboskyob" and "tucherez" (cloud-cutter) when it rose in 1904–1905, and the words entered everyday speech. The oval mansard windows, called "bull's eyes", repeat the pattern of the entrance doorways. Since the Soviet era the building has housed the Krasnye Vorota cultural centre.

The structure is located at Sadovaya-Spaskaya Street 19 and is easily accessible via existing street infrastructure. Visitors should note that the interior spaces are privately used, so the exterior facade is the main focus for observation.

In Soviet times the building housed GIRD, the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion, where the future rocket designer Sergei Korolev worked. Today it holds the Krasnye Vorota cultural centre. Actor Vladislav Galkin lived here for the last six months of his life.