Detail of a 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

People:

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

Title:

Date:

after 1931

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

competition drawing

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.8 x 12.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0024:041

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
elevation (drawing)

Point of View:

exterior views
plan view

Inscription:

imprinted, numbered and dated - in the image, c.l. to u.r.: "[?] KAPITALO / VLOZHENII / V PIATILETKU / POSHLO NA / SOZDANIE / TEKHNICHESKOI / I / KUL'TURNOI / BAZY [?]" [[?] CAPITAL / INVESTMENTS / IN FIVE YEAR PLAN / WENT / TO CREATE / TECHNICAL / AND / CULTURAL / BASE [?]]; c.: "SSSR UDARNAIA BRIGADA MIROVOGO OKTIABRIA" [USSR IS THE SHOCK-TEAM OF WORLD OCTOBER"; c.l.: "PARTIA LENINA - / VOZHD' MIROVOGO / OKTIABRIA" [PARTY OF LENIN - LEADER OF THE WORLD / OCTOBER]; c.r. to u.r.: "1933MU / GODU / DALI / --- / KILOVAT / 1938G / DADIM --- KV / GIGANTY ENERGETIKI" [IN 1933 / YEAR / GAVE / --- / KILOWATT / IN 1938Y[EAR] / WILL GIVE --- KW / GIANTS OF ENERGETICS]; and l.c.: "LUCHSHIE UDARNIKI / V PARTII / LENINA" [BEST COMMUNIST-WAY WORKERS / IN PARTY / OF LENIN]; "AKADEMIA" [ACADEMY]; "KOMAKADEM." [COM[munist]ACADEM[Y].]; "VTOROI PIATILETKOI DOB'EM MIROVOI KAPITALIZM" [WITH SECOND FIVE YEAR PLAN WILL KILL WORLD CAPITALISM ONCE AND FOR ALL]; "MY NASH MY NOVYI MIR POSTROIM" [WE WILL BUILD OUR NEW WORLD] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "Brigada ASNOVA" [Team ASNOVA] and with title; c.: "O(I) - 3 - 3" [erased]; l.c.: "45" [between arrows]; "37'8% / 81"; l.r.: "arkhiv Balikhina" [outlined]; and in pen and purple ink, l.l.: "2." [sideways]

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

assembly hall
auditorium
concert hall
dining hall
architectural drawings
theatre

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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