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Derzhprom is the calling card of Soviet Kharkiv. The book gathers tales of power, architecture and the capital years.
Tales
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топонимначало XX века · Центр
UNDERGROUND KHARKIV
In 1913 in the courtyard of the Commercial Club on Rymarska Street (now the regional philharmonic) one could watch a curious spectacle. A group of people followed the actions of a man with a detached air…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Харьков
COMINTERN TOWER
A structure of metal shapes and strips forming a double spiral that twists swiftly upward around the inclined axis of the building. The angle of the axis matches the tilt of the earth’s axis, the spir…
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
AN ORGANIZED CROWD
In the still-famous Soviet silent film "Fragment of an Empire" there is a shot: a peasant who has entered a big city for the first time stares in shock at a huge concrete building. This episode was filmed…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
SUICIDE IN GOSPROM
Having landed in prison again, Mykola began to think how to escape. He inspected his cell and came up with a plan! At the first light he climbed into the chimney and, bracing with hands, feet, and back against the walls, st…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
ARCHITECTURAL CACOPHONY
Kharkiv residents and visitors who have not lost their artistic taste cannot help being struck by the architectural mishmash of buildings around Independence Square. It is as if they were built in different eras…”
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байкасоветский Харьков · Центр
STALIN: “WELL DONE, KHARKIVITES!”
My first memories of television date to the very beginning of the 1950s, when I was still a schoolboy. The whole family gathered in the living room, and neighbors often dropped in. Everyone settled in and watched reverently…”
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