Test: How Well Do You Know Soviet Design

You have probably already taken our first test dedicated to Soviet design. This time, together with the bureau «Tочка дизайна», we decided to check your knowledge not only regarding product design but also architecture. Let's go?

If not everything went smoothly and the result slightly disappointed you, we can suggest updating your knowledge. We periodically cover various aspects of Moscow's history and architecture in particular. If you missed these articles, now is the time to make up for it!

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How and Why Moscow Communal Houses Appeared

The dream of times when private property would disappear and people would live together, sharing public goods equally, did not escape architects. Riding the wave of these sentiments, they began building special communal houses. But almost all such experiments failed. Why? Read on.

All You Wanted to Know About the House of the Commissar of Finance

Built in 1930 at Novinsky Boulevard, 25/1 according to the design of architects Moisey Ginsburg and Ignatius Milinis, the House of the Commissar of Finance became a living embodiment of constructivist aesthetics and a platform where the latest architectural solutions were successfully applied.

Two-level apartment-cells, laundries and kindergartens, loungers for taking solar baths on the roof – we explained why the House of the Commissar of Finance is considered the first comfortable residential complex in Moscow.

The Most Interesting Buildings of the Soviet Avant-Garde Era

Totalitarian countries love to assert themselves through massive construction. Administrative buildings here become symbols of the era, much like churches in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Moscow in the 1920s was no exception, though money was scarce at the time and architecture favored avant-garde, minimalism, and restraint.

With Ayrat Bagautdinov, the founder of the educational project «Moscow Through an Engineer's Eyes», we tell and show how this affected the buildings that officials built «for themselves».

Photo on the cover: design project by bureau Dvekati