Spomenik: Monument to Fallen Soldiers in Nikšić, Montenegro. Completed in 1982. Also known as Monument on Trebjesa. Socialist memorial in former Yugoslavia.
Architectonic Blog Posts
Ilinden Memorial
Spomenik: Ilinden Memorial in Kruševo, North Macedonia. Constructed in 1974. Also called the Makedonium. Socialist memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Skopje Central Post Office
Skopje Central Post Office in North Macedonia. Completed in 1982. Brutalist, Socialist-era architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
‘Medeya’
Medeya (Daughter of Tsar Kolkhida) in Pitsunda, Abkhazia. Created in 1969 by sculptor Merab Berdzenishvili. Soviet sculpture in the former USSR.
Workers’ Movement Memorial
Workers’ Movement Memorial, part of Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary. Created in 1976. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Kyiv Crematorium
Kyiv Crematorium in Ukraine. Completed in 1985 by architect, Avraham Miletski. Modernist style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Republican School Children’s Palace
Republican School Children’s Palace in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Formerly called the Palace of the Pioneers. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Monument to the Great Patriotic War
Monument to the Great Patriotic War (WWII) in Vanadzor, Armenia. Completed in 1973. War memorial, Soviet monument in the former USSR.
House of Soviets
House of Soviets in Tiraspol, Pridnestrovie (Transnistria). Stalinist Empire style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Former Cosmos Cinema
Former Cosmos Cinema in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Completed in 1988. Modernist style building with mosaic decoration; Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Palace of Culture, Strategic Missile Forces and MVO Military Sanatorium
Palace of Culture, Strategic Missile Forces and MVO Military Sanatorium in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Republic of Councils Monument
Republic of Councils Monument in Memento Park, Budapest. Completed in 1969. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.