The beauty of Soviet brutalism

Inspired by the finest Supremacist utopias, the Georgian Ministry of Highways with its reduced anchorage. (G. Chakhava, Z. Dzhalaganiya, T. Tkhilava, V. Klinberg) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1974

Palace of Ceremonies (R. Dzhorbenadze, V. Orbeladze) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985

Soviet embassy in Cuba (A. Rochegov) Havana, 1985

Crematorium (A. Miletski) Kiev, Ukraine, 1985

Monument to the Battle of Bash-Aparan. (R. Israelyan) Armenia, 1979

The anthropomorphic House of Soviets in Kaliningrad stands on the site of the Saxon castle of Königsberg. Begun in 1974, its construction was never completed because of its structural flaws and the collapse of the USSR.

Built in the nineteenth century, the Ninth Fort at Kaunas was used by the Soviet NKVD as a detention center and then by the German occupying forces. The 32 metre-high (105-ft.-high) memorial stands on the site of mass executions carried out during the Holocaust. This spectacular evocation of suffering and death was designed by the sculptor Alfonsas Ambraziunas. Lithuania, 1983

Zurab Tsereteli designed the colored ceramic pool of the children health resort in Adler. Russia, 1973

Druzhba sanatorium (I. Vasilevsky, Y. Stefanchuk) Yalta, Ukraine, 1985

Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (S. Savin, B. Artiushin) Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1987

Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development. (L. Novikov, F. Turiev) Kiev, Ukraine, 1971

The architecture faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk and its succession of overhanging lecture theaters. (V. Anikin, I. Yesman) Belarus, 1983