With the beginning of the construction of "Khrushchyovkas," Soviet housing development became predominantly industrial. Compared to "Stalinkas", which were usually built from brick, Khrushchyovkas had smaller apartments, and their functionalist …

Dec 3, 2013 · Basic apartment blocks, which were commonplace across Eastern Europe,were named after leaders and reflected the thinking of those in power. The architecture of Soviet times is not just a...

These structures were initially intended to supplement the more elaborate Stalin-era (Stalinkas) buildings and communal apartments (multifamily apartments), which had previously dominated Soviet urban housing.

May 23, 2022 · Soviet-era housing estates of Central and Eastern Europe have been dismissed as eyesores and viewed as monolithic. Their legacy is more complicated than that.

Soviet-style cities are often traced to Modernist ideas in architecture such as those of Le Corbusier and his plans for Paris. The housing developments generally feature tower blocks in park-like settings, standardized and mass-produced using structural insulated panels within a short period of time.

Jul 10, 2019 · Based on a unique collection of urban data covering several hundred Russian cities and spanning three regimes across more than a century, this paper gives a nuanced account of continuities and discontinuities of housing in post-Soviet cities.

Feb 24, 2017 · Moscow to demolish 8,000 Soviet-era housing blocks. Moscow city authorities are to tear down about 8,000 blocks of flats built in the 1950s and 1960s in a major clearance programme that will involve rehousing 1.6 million people in the coming years, it’s reported.

Jul 23, 2018 · Russia’s history of mass housing development can be divided into several distinct periods, each manifested by its own specific type of residential building. These houses reveal what lifestyle,...

Dec 22, 2016 · Twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, ushering in rapid and sweeping changes. Those who lived through the last decades of the U.S.S.R. remember an era of housing shortages,...

Jul 17, 2019 · In view of the fact that during the Soviet era housing policy was set by the head of state, the article will discuss the following four periods: pre-industrialization, from industrialization to the Stalin era, from the Khrushchev era to developed Socialism, and post-Soviet collapse.