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Soviet Modernism
 Building(s) of the month

We publish three manifesto projects each month: these are developments from three architectural periods — constructivism, post-war modernism, and post-modernism. Some are unrealized, some are partially realized, and some are unrealized. These three projects are concepts of transformation of the utopian and fantastic into the realistic.

A standard block of brick flats for four households with duplex apartments and a complete set of modern conveniences, from the Gerard system, type C. Kemerovo. Architect J. van Loghem // The 1920s © The I.V. Zakharova archives

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony

A social experiment conducted in 1921-1927 in the territory of present-day Kemerovo

The First West-Siberian Agricultural, Forest, Trade and Industry Exhibition. The Pavilion of Siberian Studies. Omsk. Architect Leonid Chernyshev // 1911 © The Library of Congress

First West-Siberian Agricultural and Industry Exhibition

A site for implementing the boldest architectural fantasies

A street perspective. Architectural graphics. Omsk. A.V. Linetsky // The 1920s © Mikhail Vrubel Arts Museum

Khudprom College Omsk

The industrial arts college founded under Narkompros 

The qualifying design project of collective dwelling for the miners of Anzhero-Sudzhensk | Nikolay Kuzmin, 1928 © Nikolay Kuzmin

Collective housing for miners in Anzhero-Sudzhensk

A qualifying project of collective housing for miners in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Nikolay Kuzmin, 1928

General plan of the research complex of the Siberian branch of VASHNIL in Krasnoobsk | A. S. Panfil, Yu. P. Platonov, A. P. Karpov, E. P. Sudarikov, G. A. Tyulenin, GiproNII, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1970 © Museum of the House of Scientists, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Siberian branch of VASHNIL in the town of Krasnoobsk

The science complex of the Siberian branch of the All-Union Academy of Agriculture in the town of Krasnoobsk | Architects Panfil, Platonov, Karpov, Sudarikov, Tyulenin, GiproNII, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, VNIPIET design organization, 1970

Extraterrestrial settlements of humanity | Андрей Кузнецов, Вячеслав Мизин, 1989 © V. Yu. Mizin

Extraterrestrial settlements of humanity

Extraterrestrial settlements of humanity, Andrey Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Mizin, 1989

The design project of the House of Culture and Science, A. Grinberg, M. Smurov, M. Kurilko, T. Bardt, S. Polygalin, et al, 1931 © S. N. Balandin Museum of the History of Architecture in Siberia

The House of Culture and Science / Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

The project of the House of Culture and Science, A. Grinberg, M. Smurov, M. Kurilko, T. Bardt, S. Polygalin, et al, 1931

The design project of reconstruction of the central part of Novosibirsk by Mikhail Pirogov, 1965 © S. N. Balandin Museum of the History of Architecture in Siberia

Reconstruction project of the central part of Novosibirsk

The design project of reconstruction of the central part of Novosibirsk by Mikhail Pirogov, 1965

A perspective movie theater, Viktor Smyshlyaev, Yevgeny Burov, 1985-1986GiproNII, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1970 © The personal archive of V. Mizin

A perspective movie theater

A perspective movie theater, Viktor Smyshlyaev, Yevgeny Burov, 1985-1986

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