Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Eastern Lithuania. Constructed in the 1970s. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Architectonic Blog Posts
Chernihiv Railway Station
Chernihiv Railway Station in Ukraine. Completed in 1949 by architect Gennady Granatkin. Stalinist Empire style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Linnahall
Linnahall in Tallinn, Estonia. Completed in 1980 by architects Raine Karp and Riina Altmäe. Brutalist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Tsentralnyi Bridge
Bas relief on Tsentralnyi Bridge in Dnipro, Eastern Ukraine. Completed in 1967 by sculptor Yuri Pavlov. Soviet artwork in the former USSR.
Palace Ukraine
Palace Ukraine in Kyiv. Completed 1970 by architects Y. Marynchenko, P. Zhylytsky and I.Vainer. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Derzhprom Metro Station
Derzhprom Metro Station in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Completed in 1995. Architects I. Karpenko and V. Spivachuk. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Monument to the Great Patriotic War
Monument to the Great Patriotic War (World War II) in Gyumri, Armenia. Completed in the 1980s. Soviet war memorial in the former USSR.
Universal Hall
Universal Hall in Skopje, North Macedonia. Constructed between 1964 and 1966. Modernist, Socialist architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
Chernihiv River Port
River Port in Chernihiv, a medium-sized city in the far north of Ukraine. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Peace Dove Mosaic
Mosaic depicting a peace dove on the side of Mitana Factory in Tbilisi, Georgia (Caucasus). Soviet era artwork in the former USSR.
Monument to the Fallen Partisan Detachment from Zenica
Spomenik: Monument to the Fallen Partisan Detachment from Zenica in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Completed in 1968. Socialist monument in the former Yugoslavia.
Puppet Theatre Lukhtak
Puppet Theatre Lukhtak in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (Central Asia). Completed in 1985. Mosaic-covered Soviet architecture in the former USSR.