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

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

after 1927

- 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).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 14.7 x 22.7 cm sheet: 15.6 x 23.2 cm

PH1998:0011:008

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, c.r.: "Tsentral'nyi Rabochii Komitet [?]" [Central Workers' Committee [?]; on building] imprinted and numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, b.: with title; and l.r.: "3763." inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t. to u.r.: with title; u.c.: "IZh 6544"; and c. to b.: "9" [?] stamped - in purple ink, on the print, verso, c.: "[N.] I. in-t teorii, istorii i / [pers]pektivnykh problem sovetskoi / arkhitektury / REG. N 19 g." [[Scientific]. R[esearch]. in-[stitu]te of theory, history and / [pros]pective problems of soviet / architecture / REG[istration]. N 19 y[ear].]

Baku; Azerbaijan;

• architecture

• apartment houses
• communal housing
• dormitory (building)