Central telegraph building, Constructivist landmark in Tverskoy District, Moscow, Russia

The Central Telegraph building is a grey multi-storey structure on Tverskaya Street with a rounded corner facing the street. Its upper section is clad in a grid of square windows divided by vertical ribs and topped by a parapet with a repeated cross-like ornament. The lower floors form a grid of rectangular windows and shopfronts; a globe sculpture sits above the corner entrance, and a vertical sign reads "36-6" above "АПТЕКА".

The site at Tverskaya Street and Gazetny Lane was bought in the mid-1910s by the Rossiya insurance company, which laid foundations in 1915 before war halted work. After 1917 the property was nationalised and the plot passed to the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs in 1922. In 1925 the Moscow Architectural Society held an all-Union competition with 21 entries; the committee recommended Ivan Rerberg's project, and the building rose on the pre-revolutionary foundations in 1925–1927.

The building contains a museum dedicated to telecommunications history, where you can see old telegraph equipment and documents related to Russian communication development. Visitors discover how messages once traveled across vast distances through these machines.

The building stands at the corner of Tverskaya Street and Gazetny Lane, its rounded corner facing the street with a globe sculpture above the entrance and a green "АПТЕКА" sign beside it. The Museum of the Central Telegraph's history, opened in 1985, can be visited only by prior arrangement, as was the case in 2014. Look for the "СПУТНИК" sign above the ground-floor shopfronts.

The building's rounded corner carries a globe sculpture above the entrance, and a vertical sign reads "36-6" over the word "АПТЕКА" in white on green; two dark banners with a mobile phone flank it. The upper floors form a grid of square windows between vertical ribs, under a parapet with a repeated cross-like ornament.