A house from the future: the brightest futuristic buildings in the USSR

If it seems to you that the main scourge and flaw in the architecture of the Soviet Union is uniformity and dullness, then ... it does not seem to you. And yet, fortunately, there are exceptions to all rules. As it turned out, the planned economy gave place not only to the boring and squalid Khrushchev-“boxes” that still exist. Even in this impenetrable darkness of the Soviet egalitarianism, rays of light of extraordinary architectural solutions flickered.

It was this ray in the form of the building of the Ministry of Roads in Tbilisi that was discovered by the French photographer Frederic Chauban. The unusual building so interested him that he began to search and collect photographs of futuristic buildings throughout the former USSR. Let's take a look at the result of his journey and research on Soviet architecture, which lasted for seven years.

Ministry of Roads of the Georgian SSR

Cottage of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Lake Sevan, Armenia

Wedding Palace in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, St. Petersburg

Cinema "Russia" in Yerevan, Armenia

Wedding Palace in Tbilisi, Georgia

Polytechnic Institute in Minsk, Belarus

House of Soviets in Kaliningrad

Monument to the victims of German invaders, Kaunas, Lithuania

Crematorium in Kiev

Academy of Sciences in Moscow

Institute of Information in Kiev

Sanatorium "Friendship", Yalta

Andropov's cottage in Pärnu, Estonia

Office building, Rapla, Estonia

Brezhnev's cottage in Palanga, Lithuania

Hotel in Dombay

Soviet Embassy in Cuba, Havana

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