STALINIST ARCHITECTURE - LENINGRAD Ezhegodnik Leningradskogo otdeleniia Soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov. Annuaire de l'Union des Architectes Sovietiques de Leningrad. Vypusk 1-2 XV-XVI 1934-1939 Yearbook of the Leningrad section of the Union of Soviet Architects
54728Leningrad: Izdanie Leningradskogo Otdeleniia Soiuza Sovetskikh Arkhitektorov 1940. Original embossed blue cloth; 412 pp. of brief introductory text followed by lists indices and thousands of illustrations from photographs drawings plans elevations and models. Title in Russian and French. About very good. First volume a double issue of this massive documentation on Leningrad architecture before World War II. The many thousands of illustrations give a comprehensive account of both realized and planned projects in Leningrad in the second half of the 1930s when the Stalinist Neoclassical style was dominant. The volume opens with the presentation of the General Plan for Leningrad designed by Lev Il'in 1880-1942 the head architect of Leningrad in 1925-1938. The plan for the expansion and modernization of the city was used continually throughout the Soviet period. Designs for various parts of Leningrad new embankments public buildings and housing complexes planned for Leningrad are also present. Other Stalinist neoclassical structures of note in the volume include the building of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow 1934 the Soviet Pavilion at the International Exhibition in New York 1939 House of Government of the Azerbaijan SSR in Baku 1937 Palace of the Komsomol in Stalingrad 1936 House of Government of the Ukrainian SSR in Kyiv 1937 National Theater of the Red Army in Minsk 1938 as well as numerous housing complexes sanatoriums village clubhouses as well as interiors and decorative elements. The publication comes with a detailed table of contents author and subject index. The volume is marked as volume 1-2 XV-XVI a kind of continuation of the yearbooks of the Leningrad Society of Architects which ceased to exist in 1932 with the creation of the Union of Soviet Architects. Two further volumes were published by the Leningrad section of the Union of Soviet Architects in 1950 and 1955.<br /> <br /> As of February 2025 KVK OCLC show five holdings in North America. unknown
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