The house was built in 1940-1941. Its construction began even before the war, but the famous turret with a spire appeared later, in 1953. The architects of the famous building are Grigory Simonov, Boris Rubanenko, Vladimir Vasilkovsky (the author of the tower is Oleg Guryev). According to the project, the tower was supposed to be crowned with a figure of a man holding a model of a ship above his head, but for some reason it was decided to settle on a spire with a wreath and a gilded star. The spire was made by the workers of the Admiralty shipyards.

On the tower you can see sculptures – sailors with an anchor and women with a steering oar. In the corners of the tower’s roof there are more sculptures – globes with doves sitting on them, symbolizing peace. The authors of these sculptures are the architect Lazar Markovich Khidekel and the sculptor Igor Vsevolodovich Krestovsky.

A well-maintained, rapidly developing area, large apartments with high ceilings and luxurious finishes, the proximity of the Moskovsky Victory Park – all this motivated high-ranking military men, politicians and officials to settle in the house with a spire. Soon, the building was colloquially called the “General's House”.

However, over time, the range of residents changed drastically, and communal apartments appeared in the house. Singer and songwriter Viktor Tsoi grew up in one of these communal flats. Ironically, the hero of the underground music of the 80s, a rebel from the “generation of janitors and watchmen”, a rock musician and an “anti-Soviet” spent his teenage years in a building that was meant for the Soviet establishment.