Travelers often ask me about untourisry, offbeat spots - so I will take you out of the center to a residential area with very interesting Soviet brutalist, modernist and stalinist architecture, murals and statues.
How to influence people through architecture? It is a powerful ideological tool, esp when we talk about Soviet era.
What messages are embedded in Soviet buildings?
How is Soviet architecture related to religion, mythology, masonry, and art?
Architecture can inspire or suppress, instill pride or fear, be a means of propaganda or even a protest.
If you want to explore this topic and to see remarkable Soviet brutalist, modernist, and stalinist buildings, murals, statues, symbols in a totally untouristy, offbeat, out-of-center area, let's do this tour.