Boarding House Mayak, Resort Pitsunda

Location: Pitsunda, Abkhazia

Completed: 1967

Chief architects: Mikhail Posokhin and Ashot Mndoyants

Alternative name: Resort of all-Union, Seven Candles Resort, Boarding House Lighthouse

Genre: Modernist, Soviet architecture, former USSR

Pitsunda sits on one of the largest bays in the Eastern Black Sea region. Orders to establish the first mega-resort in the USSR came from the then General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev. Two of the Union’s top architects were given the task of drawing up the blueprint and more than three thousand labourers, artisans and craftsmen etc. descended on the small town to create the resort as per their plan. More information about Resort Pitsunda.

Boarding House Mayak (Lighthouse) Resort Pitsunda (Resort of all-Union/Seven Candles Resort) in Pitsunda, Abkhazia | Modernist | Soviet architecture | former USSR

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