The House of Soviets is situated at the historic center of Rostov-on-Don, at Soviets Square. It was initially planned that the building would have 1000 rooms, a conference hall, canteens, a post office, a hairdresser, buffets, a printing house and other services. Its crown was to be a cylindrical building with a conference hall. However, this was still under construction at the time of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and what had been built was damaged during the German occupation of the city in 1942. During the post-war reconstruction, the eight-storey building partially lost its originally planned appearance. The facades lost the tape glazing - it was simply bricked up, the wall field was embossed, a heavy portal was installed above the main entrance to the building on huge rectangular pilasters. The designers of the new facade were architects Vladimir Grigor and .