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A map of the boundary expansion of Moscow to include certain towns and suburbs in 2012

The newly emerging Russian state had begun searching for its civic identity. Under Stalin, a singular vision was beginning to form and is evident in the 1935 central plan of Moscow. Moscow was to become an international metropolis and the crown jewel…

An unrealized project, the Aeroflot Building was posed to be placed where the Belorussky Station was built. Dmitry Chechulin, later becoming chief architecture of Moscow in 1945, intending the building to memorialize the heroism supposedly typified…

One of the most ambitious architectural works during this period, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry if built would have been one of the tallest and largest complexes in the world. If built, the complex would have stretched over four…

The Palace of Technology competition was begun in 1933. This entry by Samoylov and Yefomovich was not selected as the jurors felt it was 'was not a tribute to a constructivisim which was receding into the past, but rather an illustration of the…

The architectural contest for the Palace of the Soviets (1931–1933) was won by Boris Iofan's neoclassical concept, subsequently revised by Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh into a skyscraper. If built, it would have become the world's…

the assembling of the prefabricated housing. the dirt of the construction period often made part of the mikrorarion's landscape during its first years of existence

broad street with trolly on the edge of a Khoroshevo-Mnevniki microraion

Though the construction of these new developments promised greenery and public spaces, for some, this meager setup is as far as development went after the concrete aspects were covered.