Meanwhile, up close, on every surface hum endless hypnotic patterns: from arabesque and geometric algorithms on majolica tiles and carvings on heavy maplewood doors to – nearby at old caravanserai ...

Government of Russia 03 June 2022 13:24 The third interregional cruise of the Valdai 45R hydrofoils on the route Nizhny Novgorod – Kozmodemyansk (Republic of Mari El) has opened. The launch ceremony ...

‘Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven, and let us make our name famous ...’ (Genesis 11:4) The American poet Ezra Pound declared 1922 “Year Zero.” In the spring ...

Legion Media Vladimir Shukhov's most innovative and famous design was astonishing in its simplicity - as most of his works were. Pyotr Khudyakov, Shukhov's friend, wrote in his memoirs that in the ...

One hundred years after the inauguration of his most famous work – the Shabolovka Radio Tower in Moscow – a book pays tribute to the great Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov Only 20 years separate the ...

Commercial interests are omnipotent, parroting the cry of the development lobby An Italian court last Monday overturned a ban on 100,000-tonne cruise liners sailing up Venice’s Giudecca canal to get a ...

As government officials in Moscow earmark Constructivist buildings for demolition in a massive project to relocate up to 1.6 million of the city’s residents, a non-profit museum dedicated to ...

To be a tourist in Russia is to wallow in the glorious imperial past: the stupendously-sized Hermitage in St Petersburg, the onion domes of St Basil’s in Red Square, Moscow. To even think this could ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people rallied outside a 1920s-era former telephone exchange in Moscow, decrying a plan to demolish the avant-garde landmark and build luxury flats. However, days later, developers started ...

Named for its designer, Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939), the steel tower stands over 500 feet tall, less than half the original planned height; a steel shortage during the Russian Civil War halted its ...