Some remarkable buildings were built in the early years of the Soviet Union, guided by dreams of a socialist utopia. These structures were inspired by cubism and other modern art movements, and they ...

The motherland of constructivist architecture, Moscow is home to many of the world’s best examples of the former hallmark Soviet style. However, many constructivist buildings such as the Narkomfin and ...

Richard Pare spent two decades photographing “rarely published and virtually inaccessible” buildings by the visionary architects who worked before Stalin rose to power. Famous Unbuilt Buildings Become ...

From 1920 through 1991, Armenia was a part of the Soviet Union. Known mostly as the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (in 1990 it was renamed the Republic of Armenia), it was a place where ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - British photographer Richard Pare is on a mission to capture Soviet avant-garde buildings before they turn to ruins in the hope of raising awareness about this little-known period ...

Next to the sprawling U.S. Embassy and just off the ill-named Garden Ring, the clogged 12-lane highway that encircles Moscow's city center, stands a little slice of utopia. Paradise, however, has ...

Chelsea’s Tony Shafrazi Gallery is currently showing a fantastic collection of 95 rare Soviet Constructivist film posters, circa 1920-33, and a model of Vladimir Tatlin’s influential “Monument for the ...

Neglected and abused, Moscow's Narkomfin apartment block, a Soviet masterpiece admired around the world, is finally being restored to its original, pioneering state. Architect Alexey Ginzburg is ...

Rendering of the proposed Lakhta Center in St Petersburg. Image Courtesy of www.proektvlahte.ru Architecture has always been the best way for ideologies to leave their stamp, and Russia is one of the ...

In the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s and ’30s, there was a dynamic creativity in the arts, including in one of the newest forms of media: film. Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde, out now ...