The architecture and registration of a lobby are very similar to temple constructions.
The entrance to "the Temple of the Victory" is focused to the west.
In east part there is an absida reminding an altar in which once there was Stalin's sculpture.
16 gate of glory through which visitors get in twelve-columned dome halls arbors symbolize the number of the Soviet republics.
The dome framed on diameter with words of the second couplet of the anthem USSR reminds the sun.
By the way, beams on a dome too 16. "The Soviet muses" finish registration of work of N. Tomsky.