Fire at noted huge Brutalist block in Moscow leaves two dead

A view of the Dom Korabl (Ship Building) after a fire broke out in one of the apartments in Moscow, Russia (Pavel Bednyakov/AP)

Two people died in a fire at one of the Russian capital’s most notable buildings, a gargantuan Brutalist apartment block that viewers have likened to a toppled skyscraper.

The night-time fire broke out in the so-called Dom Korabl (Ship Building), a hive of about 1,000 apartments that rises 14 stories in the south-central part of Moscow.