It was conceived by local planning offices in each republic and executed to the standardizations of the construction industry. Architects experimented with concepts of international architecture and ...

Their construction, which began in 1947 ... to nowhere," it was an example of the unrestrained ambition of the Soviet authorities. As reported by the "Siberian Times," the projected polar railway ...

On the inside it can be quite another story, and that’s certainly the case with the construction of this Soviet-era 7-segment numerical display. From the outside it may look a bit sturdier than ...