Russian architecture
Neoclassical architecture in Russia
The neoclassical architecture in Russia grew in the second half of 18th century especially after the accession to the throne…
Kokoshnik in architecture
Kokoshnik (Russian: кокошник) is a semicircular or keel-like exterior decorative element in the traditional Russian architecture, a type of corbel…
Bochka roof
Bochka roof or simply bochka (Russian: бочка, barrel) is the type of roof in the traditional Russian architecture that has…
Soviet architectural modernism
Soviet modern architecture - one of the three original Soviet architectural styles. Brought by critics in a separate direction recently,…
Soviet architecture
Soviet architecture covers the period 1917-1991. During this time, it reflected a number of world architectural styles - constructivism, rationalism,…
Series of apartment buildings
The series of residential buildings (Russian: Серии жилых домов) are residential buildings built according to a group of typical projects…
Soviet typical project of cinemas
A typical project of cinemas (Типовой проект кинотеатров) is a project that built cinemas in different cities of the USSR.…
Soviet sample school
Typical projects of buildings of secondary schools (Типовые проекты зданий общеобразовательных школ) - the projects on which schools were built…
Tsekovo House
The Tsekovo houses (Russian: цеко́вки or аббревиатуры ЦК), from the abbreviation of the Central Committee) are multi-apartment houses for the…
Soviet hotel dwelling
The gostinka or Soviet hotel dwelling (Russian: Гостинка), is a word widely used in modern lexical usage and used in…
Soviet small family house
house for small families (Малосемейка) - an apartment building consisting of a large number of one-room apartments of a small…
Stalinka in architecture
Stalinka, or Stalin style houses - the common colloquial name of apartment buildings that were built in the USSR from…
Conical Shaped Temples
Tent-roofed temples are a special architectural type that has appeared and become widespread in Russian temple architecture. Instead of the…
Khrushchyovka
Khrushchyovka (Russian: хрущёвка) is an unofficial name of a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building…
Terem in architecture
The "terem" (Russian: Терем) refers to the separate living quarters occupied by elite women of Muscovite Russia. Also, the upper…