The beauty of Soviet brutalism

Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

Inspired by the finest Supremacist utopias, the Georgian Ministry of Highways with its reduced anchorage. (G. Chakhava, Z. Dzhalaganiya, T. Tkhilava, V. Klinberg) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1974

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/1.jpg Inspired by the finest Supremacist utopias, the Georgian Ministry of Highways with its reduced anchorage. (G. Chakhava, Z. Dzhalaganiya, T. Tkhilava, V. Klinberg) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1974 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/2.jpg Palace of Ceremonies (R. Dzhorbenadze, V. Orbeladze) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/3.jpg Soviet embassy in Cuba (A. Rochegov) Havana, 1985 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/4.jpg Crematorium (A. Miletski) Kiev, Ukraine, 1985 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/5.jpg Monument to the Battle of Bash-Aparan. (R. Israelyan) Armenia, 1979 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/6.jpg The anthropomorphic House of Soviets in Kaliningrad stands on the site of the Saxon castle of Königsberg. Begun in 1974, its construction was never completed because of its structural flaws and the collapse of the USSR. Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/7.jpg Built in the nineteenth century, the Ninth Fort at Kaunas was used by the Soviet NKVD as a detention center and then by the German occupying forces. The 32 metre-high (105-ft.-high) memorial stands on the site of mass executions carried out during the Holocaust. This spectacular evocation of suffering and death was designed by the sculptor Alfonsas Ambraziunas. Lithuania, 1983 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/8.jpg Zurab Tsereteli designed the colored ceramic pool of the children health resort in Adler. Russia, 1973 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/9.jpg Druzhba sanatorium (I. Vasilevsky, Y. Stefanchuk) Yalta, Ukraine, 1985 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/10.jpg Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (S. Savin, B. Artiushin) Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1987 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/11.jpg Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development. (L. Novikov, F. Turiev) Kiev, Ukraine, 1971 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/all/2011/0406/galleries/13887/12.jpg The architecture faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk and its succession of overhanging lecture theaters. (V. Anikin, I. Yesman) Belarus, 1983 Frédéric Chaubin / TASCHEN

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