Hotel Aia in Tskaltubo, Georgia. Completed in 1985 and now home to IDPs. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Architectonic Blog Posts
Restaurant Mayak
Restaurant Mayak in Dnipro, Ukraine. Completed in 1979 by architect Elvina Davydova. Now abandoned. Brutalist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial
Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial, part of Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary. Created in 1956. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Daile Theatre
Daile Theatre in Riga, Latvia (Baltic States). Constructed between 1966 and 1976. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Kobuleti Central Park
Mosaic fish, part of the fountain in Kobuleti Central Park in Georgia. Artist Ilia Pesvianidze. Soviet artwork in the former USSR.
Cinematic Concert Hall
Cinematic Concert Hall in Slavutych, Ukraine. Completed 1988 by architect S.I. Nivin. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Monument to the War Glory of the Soviet Army
Monument to the War Glory of the Soviet Army in Lviv, Western Ukraine. Completed in 1970. Soviet war memorial in the former USSR.
Nova Makedonija
Nova Makedonija in Skopje, North Macedonia. Completed in 1985. Modernist, Socialist architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
Memorial of the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia
Memorial of the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia. Completed in 1967. Soviet memorial in the former USSR.
People’s Friendship Arch‬
People’s Friendship Arch in Kyiv, Ukraine. Formerly the Monument to the Reunification of Ukraine and Russia. Former USSR.
Kyrgyz State Circus
Kyrgyz State Circus in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia). Completed in 1976. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Necropolis for the Victims of Fascism
Spomenik: Necropolis for the Victims of Fascism in Novi Travnik, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Completed in 1975. Socialist monument in the former Yugoslavia.