View of a street with housing in the background and a dormitory in the foreground, Armenikend (Shaumian) settlement, Baku, Soviet Union (now in Azerbaijan)

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Anatolii Vasil'evich Samoilov (role unspecified)
R.A. Polak (role unspecified)
A.P. Ivanitskii (role unspecified)

Title:

View of a street with housing in the background and a dormitory in the foreground, Armenikend (Shaumian) settlement, Baku, Soviet Union (now in Azerbaijan)

Date:

after 1927

Description:

- Photographs PH1998:0011:002-013 show the Armenikend (Shaumian) settlement in Baku, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan), which was designed by A. Ivanitskii and A. Samoilov in 1925-1928. Photographs for the settlement include: drawings for housing (PH1998:0011:002-003) and photographs of housing (PH1998:0011:004-008, PH1998:0011:010 and PH1998:0011:012), a dormitory (PH1998:0011:007-009), a Specialists' House (PH1998:0011:011), and an aerial view of the settlement (PH1998:0011:013).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 7.9 x 8.7 cm sheet: 15.8 x 23.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0011:007

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted and numbered - in the image, l.l.: "II-109"; and l.r.: "PUT' OKTIABRIA / IZD. SOUZFOTO" [ROAD OF OCTOBER / PUB[LISHER] SOUZFOTO] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: with title; and u.c.: "IZh 1014" stamped - in purple ink, on the print, verso, c.: "N. I. in-t teorii, istorii i / perspektivnykh problem sovetskoi / arkhitektury / REG. N 19 g." [S[cientific]. R[esearch]. in-[stitu]te of theory, history and / prospective problems of soviet / architecture / REG[istration]. N 19 y[ear].]

Location:

Baku; Azerbaijan;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

apartment houses
communal housing
dormitory (building)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Howard Schickler et David Lafaille/
Gift of Howard Schickler and David Lafaille

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