World (concert hall)

In 1881, an octagonal stone building was built on Tsvetnoy Boulevard to demonstrate the Plevna panorama. In 1886, the Nikitin brothers purchased the building and opened a circus there. Later, the building housed a riding arena. During the Civil War, the playpen burned down, and since then the building has been vacant ^[2] .

In 1957, the reconstruction of the building into a cinema began under the project of architects V. A. Butuzov , N. S. Strigaleva, M. I. Bogdanov ^[2] , engineers L. Bogatkin, V. Kotov, design engineer A. Levenshtein ^[3] . During the reconstruction, only the brick walls were preserved. The new cinema "Mir" was opened on February 28, 1958 as a panoramic ^[3] . In 1960, it was converted into a large-format with 1220 seats ^[2] .

In 2006, the cinema was reconstructed again, after which it opened as a Mir concert hall for 923 spectators ^[4] . The last reconstruction was carried out in 2017, at the end of which Mir became a concert and entertainment venue ^[5] .

The building is brick, octagonal in plan. The diameter of the cylindrical auditorium is about 40 m ^[6] . Its walls to improve acoustics were lined with vertical wooden battens. The hall is blocked by a conical dome made of metal trusses. Outside, the walls are lined with gray ceramic tiles. The octahedron of the main volume rises above the glassy rectangular volume, where the lobby of the cinema is located ^[7] . The combination of glass and blank surfaces of walls is characteristic of Soviet architecture in the second half of the 1950s ^[6] .