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Yekaterinburg was for a time an almost experimenta

Yekaterinburg was for a time an almost experimental lab for Constructivist architecture. The Central Post Office (glavpochtamt) is an important example, designed by Konstantin Solomonov in 1934. A decade earlier the city lost its historic name to honour Yakov Sverdlov a key Bolshevik leader who died of the Spanish flu in 1919, two years after the revolution. The city became known as Sverdlovsk and the local regional area was also renamed - that all remained in place until 1991 when, after the collapse of the communist state, the name reverted back. The city is widely remembered as the place the Tsar, his wife and the children of the Romanov family were taken into internal exile and ultimately executed in July 1918. It was first named the House of Communication. Little local point of interest. The post office location became the starting point for any distance that mentioned the city. To this day there is a star denoting this on regional maps. Photo with thanks to @ekaterinburg1love

Busto Arsizio Monumental Cemetery in Lombardy, Ita

Busto Arsizio Monumental Cemetery in Lombardy, Italy (1967). Wonderful series of photos with thanks to @hckbln.de Architect Luigi Ciapparella, another more detailed photo over at @greyscapeworld

With thanks to @diagonal_arch who explains this is

With thanks to @diagonal_arch who explains this is a rare gem, the journal Soviet Architecture Issue 3 1931. ‘There is an article by Melnikov under the aegis of ASNOVA - an organisation he was thought to have left in the 1920s’ and some mudslinging at Moisei Ginsburg …amazing that it’s survived.

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