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Surreal Photos of Post-Soviet Architecture This photographer traveled to the far corners of the former Soviet Union to document a new era in design.
Half-Life: Alyx sees Valve return to the post-apocalyptic City 17, but the original game’s location inspired a generation of games infused with post-Soviet architectural elements.
My Soviet scar: Confronting architecture of oppression They are symbols of Soviet oppression to some but part of collective memory to others. Should Soviet-era monuments and buildings be protected?
Dmytro Soloviov makes a passionate case for appreciating and preserving Soviet-era modernist buildings and mosaics.
What remains of the old Soviet architecture looks out of place among French bistros, German brew pubs and a popular lunch spot called Millie's, run by an Ethiopian-American and her Cuban partner ...
Not long after Georgia declared its independence in 1991 and the Soviet Union collapsed, thousands of ethnic Georgians came to live in these abandoned sanatoriums, fleeing a bloody dispute over ...
Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego have captured the architecture and monuments of post-war Soviet Georgia in their latest photography collection.
Kotov quit his job as an engineer to begin traveling and taking photos of Soviet architecture in various places in the post-Soviet countries, because he found it “impressive”.
Soviet architecture: a revolution within the Revolution As part of our series commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Oliver Bennett looks at the radical architecture that emerged ...
Nevertheless, Soviet-era master plans and modern architecture remain important agents in the contemporary urban and architectural identities of cities across the former empire, where a young ...
In June, Bykov and architecture scholar Ievgeniia Gubkina published a book called “Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism” to draw more attention to these buildings. The book captures and ...