• Unknown (photographer)
• F. Sevotyan (role unspecified)
• Militsa Ivanovna Prokhorova (role unspecified)
• Viktor Stepanovich Balikhin (role unspecified)
• P. Budo (role unspecified)
• R. Iodko (role unspecified)
• M.A. Turkus (role unspecified)

Photograph of a plan of the center of Moscow showing an elevation for a competition [?] for a Palace of Soviets on the site of the Khram Khrista Spasitelia (Temple of Christ the Savior), Moscow

after 1931

• competition drawing

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 8.7 x 21.7 cm

PH1998:0024:040

• line drawing
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

• plan (drawing)
• elevation (drawing)

• exterior views
• plan view

- The object consists of two photographs joined u.r. to u.l. and l.r. to l.l. of one another to form one image.

imprinted, numbered and dated - in the image, t.: "ESKADRIL'IA LENINA" [LENINA; on blimp]; "SQUADRON [illeg.] VOROSHILOV" [on blimp]; u.l.: "VSE" [ALL] and "100%"; u.r.: "PRAVDA" [on blimp]; c.l.: "TsKVKP(b)" [C[entral] C[ommettee] of A[ll-Union] C[ommunist] Party of (b[olsheviks]); sideways]; c.: "VYPOLNIL" [EXECUTED]; "2 1/2"; "EST'" [AVAILABLE]; "1040"; "1905"; and "1917"; l.l.: "GOMINDIAN"; "KITAISK. [illeg.]." [CHINES[E]. [illeg.]]; "SNIMEM GOLOVY KITAISKOI KONTRREVOLU[TSII]" [LET'S TAKE THE HEADS OF CHINESE CONTRREVOLU[TION] OFF]; "DA ZDRAVSTVUET KITAISKAIA NARODNAIA VOINA! DA ZDRAVSTVUET SOVETSKII KITAI! MIROVOI SOUZ SOVETSKIKH SOTSIALISTICHESKIKH RESPUBLIK!" [LONG LIVE CHINESE PEOPLE'S WAR! LONG LIVE SOVIET CHINA! WORLD UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS!]; l.c.: "NASHI POKAZATELI" [OUR RESULTS]; "LENINSKAIA BIBLIOTEKA" [LENIN'S LIBRARY]; "KOMSOMOL / SHEF / ELEKTRIFIKATSII" [COM[munist]UN[ion of]YOU[th] / is the CHIEF / of ELECTRIFICATION]; "PARTIA LENINA - / VOZHD' MIROVOGO / OKTIABRIA" [PARTY OF LENIN - LEADER OF THE WORLD / OCTOBER]; and "MY NASH MY NOVYI MIR POSTROIM" [WE WILL BUILD OUR NEW WORLD]; l.r.: "DVORETS SOVETOV / [illeg. line] / GENERAL'NYI PLAN NOVOGO TSENTRA MOSKVY" [PALACE OF SOVIETS / [illeg. line] / CITY PLAN OF NEW MOSCOW CENTER]; and with illeg. inscription; and b.: "MGU" [M[oscow]S[tate]U[niversity]]; and "RABFAK POKROVSKOGO" [WORKER'S PREPARATORY FACILITIES OF POKROVSKI] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "str. 103." [pag[e]. 103.]; t.: "Brigada ASNOVA" [Team ASNOVA] and ".103."; u.c.: with title; l.c.: "1039" [upside down; underlined; circled; erased] ; and b. and l.r.: "arkhiv Balikhina" [archive of Balikhin; outlined; erased]; and in pen and purple ink, u.l.: "3."

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• assembly hall
• auditorium
• concert hall
• dining hall
• architectural drawings
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• towers (single built works)
• theatre