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Pages in category "Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
Urban planning in the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War era was dictated by ideological, political, social as well as economic motives. Unlike the urban development in the Western countries, Soviet-style planning often called for the complete redesigning of cities.
Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union (168 P) Pages in category "Socialist planned cities" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.
In these parts of the former Soviet Union, private renovation has been the norm, explaining the difference in the conditions of the buildings. [6] In 2017, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the Moscow Urban Renewal Initiative, a vast public works program to demolish thousands of the city's khrushchevka ...
Dnipro – former closed city, a major center of Soviet aerospace industry. Simferopol-28, Crimea – former closed town, a Soviet military space mission control center. Kamianske – former closed city, largest Uranium processing factory in former Soviet Union. [28] Feodosia-13, Crimea – former closed town, a central storage of nuclear weapons.
Naukograd (Russian: наукогра́д, IPA: [nəʊkɐˈgrat], also technopole), meaning "science city", is a formal term for towns with high concentrations of research and development facilities in Russia and the Soviet Union, some specifically built by the Soviet Union for these purposes.
Unlike Western countries, the Soviet Union did not redevelop existing residential or commercial areas, microdistricts were always built further and further out from old parts of cities, so planning of local services, and transportation to employment in old parts of the city were critical. One of the city-planners' tasks was to ensure that the ...
Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union (1 C, 43 P) Museums in the Soviet Union (2 C, 2 P) P. Power stations built in the Soviet Union (2 C, 38 P) R.