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Rusakov Workers’ Club
Amazing photo by the Constructivist Project:http://instagram.com/theconstructivistproject

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Design variant for GOSTORG in Moscow, by architect B. Velikovskii (1925).

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Modernist GOSTORG in Moscow, by architect B. Velikovskii. Built 1925-1927.

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The heroic avant-garde in the Second City.

Leningrad. Architects G. Simonov, P. Abrosimov, A. Khriakov (1931-1933).

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Palace of the Soviets competition entry, Project 87.

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Possibly the creepiest entry for the Palace of the Soviets competition, Project 106, which I prefer to call “Leninskull.”The description of the project is slightly more benign: “The USSR serenely gazes toward the future.” In French, Russian, and German.

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Aleksei Shchusev, Telegraph (1925).

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Project 102 for the Palace of the Soviets, 1931.

Buildings and designs by the “other” Trotsky, the modernist architect Noi Abramovich.

The other Trotsky

No relation, obviously. It’s Bronshtein, remember?

Noi Abramovich (1895-1940)
Image: Noi Abramovich Trotskii, Leningrad 1929

Not Lev Davidovich. The architect, Noi Abramovich, rather. No relation, obviously. It’s Bronshtein, remember?

Here are some examples of his work.

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A. Kurovskii, competition project from the studio of A. Shchusev, “Novyi mir” (1927).

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I. Fomin and A. Langman, “Dynamo” association house in Moscow. Built 1928-1930.

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M. Siniaver, B. Pomleev, and I. Golombek, design for a textile factory, 1929 (perspective, fragment).

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Exterior perspective for a theater by the early Soviet avant-garde collective MIGI, 1922.

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Avant-garde sculptures from Zhivskulptarkh, 1919.