Former Linas (Lino) Swimming Pool in Palanga, Lithuania. Completed in 1984. Brutalist style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
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Memorial to the Great Patriotic War
Memorial to the Great Patriotic War in Kremenets, Ukraine. Alternative name: World War II Memorial. War memorial, Soviet monument in the former USSR.
Ukrposhta (Postal Service)
Ukrposhta in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Mosaic name: “More Cast Iron, Steel and Rolled Stock for the Motherland”. Former USSR Soviet artwork.
Bus Stop “Fragment of a Dolphin”
Bus Stop “Fragment of a Dolphin” in Gagra, Abkhazia. Completed in 1967. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Memorial to the Great Patriotic War
Memorial to the Great Patriotic War (World War II) in Chiatura, Georgia. Soviet-era war monument in the former USSR.
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Modernist style, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Minsk Hero-City Obelisk
Minsk Hero-City Obelisk in Minsk, Belarus, eastern Europe. Completed in 1985. War memorial, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Expocenter of Ukraine (Pavilion 1)
Expocenter of Ukraine (Pavilion 1) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Completed in 1958. Stalinist Empire style, Soviet-era architecture in the former USSR.
Tbilisi Central Train Station
Tbilisi Central Train Station in Tbilisi, Georgia. Constructed between 1978 and 1985. Brutalist railway station, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.
Spa Medical Resort Jantarnij Bereg
Spa Medical Resort Jantarnij Bereg in Jūrmala, Latvia. Completed in 1972 by architect S. Kleymenov. Modernist, Soviet sanitorium in the former USSR.
Business Centre
Business Centre in Tbilisi, Georgia. Formerly the House of Political Education. Soviet artwork in the former USSR.
Hotel Olumpia
Hotel Olumpia in Tallinn, Estonia. Constructed from 1974 to 1980. Architects: Toivo Kallas and Rein Kersten. Soviet architecture in the former USSR.