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The architecture of Russia refers to the architecture of modern Russia as well as the architecture of both the original Kievan Rus', the Russian principalities, and Imperial Russia. Due to the geographical size of modern and Imperial Russia, it typically refers to architecture built in European Russia, as well as European influenced ...
An izba (Russian: изба́, IPA: ⓘ) is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling. Often a log house, it forms the living quarters of a conventional Russian farmstead. It is generally built close to the road and inside a yard, which also encloses a kitchen garden, hay shed, and barn within a simple woven stick fence. Traditional, old-style ...
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk. Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet ...
The book Russian Wooden Architecture (1942) emphasized the following features: a combination of delicate treatment of details with the power and simplicity of the main volumes; picturesque, asymmetrical arrangement of few and carefully worked openings; more detailed exterior treatment of residential buildings, particularly choirs, in comparison ...
In Varketili district of Tbilisi, Georgia, the mainstay of the apartment buildings are brezhnevkas. A brezhnevka (Russian: брежневка) is a concrete apartment building that was built in the Soviet Union from 1964–1980 under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, after whom the building type is named. [1]
In 2015, the Melnikov House was the first Russian building to be included in the Iconic Houses Network's list [75] of approximately 150 unique 20th-century residential buildings. This inclusion increased the likelihood of receiving a grant from the Getty Foundation in 2017 for a pre-restoration survey of the building.
In 1972, the construction of the first round building in Nezhinskaya Street was completed. It made a big impression on the people of Moscow and of all the USSR, and for a long time there was an urban legend that the houses were built for the Moscow Olympics and that a whole block of such buildings was designed in the shape of the Olympic rings .
The house was built in 1910 and was the property of G. G. Krivtsov, head of a mutual loan company, and then M. M. Grishin (1891-1979), a professor at South Russian State Polytechnic University. [ 1 ] V.I. Kulishov, an art critic, called the architectural style of this residential building, which closes up the outlook of Atamanskaya street ...