Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl, Russian Federation
In 1932–1934, a new synthetic rubber plant and a new housing estate for its workers and staff had been constructing in Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast). Such a housing residence was called “sotsposelok”, that literally means “social settlement”. Building on the example of this particular “social settlement” and taking into account the main principles of USSR urban planning, the paper establishes the idiosyncrasies of urban planning in the 1920s. The paper argues that a “social settlement” of Yaroslavl is a characteristic of the typological sample of the Soviet era illustrating the doctrine of the Soviet working village and provides new historic facts about urban planning of the city.
urban planning, architecture, Yaroslavl, constructivism, project, type, Soviet, socialist, working settlement, quarter, sample
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