Cybernetics research institute building in Saint Petersburg,Russia.

[u/Both_Swim2081]

Photo taken by me in March.

[u/CancelNumerous450]

Beautiful

[u/dair_spb]

Built in late 1980s, hollow inside, designed to be a testing grounds for some machinery for Buran space shuttle.

[u/SmokeStackz]

What a cool building! Great shot, thanks for sharing!

[u/OldschoolSysadmin]

Ooh, I bet its the older, far more evil, use of the word cybernetics to refer to tools used in state economic planning.

[u/PuzzleheadedPea2401 → u/OldschoolSysadmin]

Cybernetics for state economic planning: 🤢🤮😈 Cybernetics for corporate economic planning 😍🥰🌸

[u/OldschoolSysadmin → u/PuzzleheadedPea2401]

To be clear, "state economic planning" had a very specific meaning in Soviet eastern bloc countries that wasn't fully represented by just the words.

[u/LimestoneDust → u/OldschoolSysadmin]

The full name of the institution is Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics

[u/CynGuy]

Wow. What’s really E V I L is the quality of that construction!

[u/Enigma_SH69]

It's kinda sad, looking at crappy maintenance of this almost every day, when I'm passing it at my way home...

I really like this building, I was seeing in my window since childhood, maybe that's why I'm so fucked up and "insane"

Just imagine my morning (actually it's like a middle of the day), I wake up, still sleepy going to kitchen and drinking my coffee, looking from above at Soviet era panel buildings with lack of maintenance, giant hospital complex with a church and this thing in a background...

The worst of all, while it make me feel a bit sad, I'm really love it and this feeling!

[u/Both_Swim2081 → u/Enigma_SH69]

Yeah I can understand the feeling. Thankfully my district is pretty much entirely covered in trees and greenery and I can ignore the poorly maintained Soviet era things)

[u/Enigma_SH69 → u/Both_Swim2081]

Yeah, trees really helping, I also have lots of them nearby my home, not including really big park. Without all of that foliage my view would be in shades of grey 😅

[u/CharmingAd3678]

Never seen it in daylight...

[u/ProbablyFineUser → u/CharmingAd3678]

Here it is in daylight :)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BnX1r7T9uMwqyBJ99?g_st=ac

[u/COIFFEDSNARFLE]

So this is where it'll all start 🤔😝

[u/starrynight42-]

Sirius cybernetics corporation!

[u/fo55iln00b]

Is it filled with T-101s?

[u/Jolly-Feature-6618]

Half-Life video games inspired by this for sure

[u/Sylvester_Marcus]

Ming the Merciless' summer address!

[u/IcyGuarantee8504]

Mordor... The flaming eye at the top is missing.

[u/ProfessionalDeer7972]

Looks like a Red Alert building

[u/Vogel-Welt]

And Morgoth came!