Eastern Blocks
Zupagrafika01"The House on Chicken Legs" was built in 1968 in the Alexeyevsky District of Moscow, Russia.
Zupagrafika02A *hochhaus* (skyscraper) built in the 1970s on the Herzbergstraße in Fennpfuhl, Lichtenberg, Berlin.
Zupagrafika03"The Hammer" high-rise on Smolna street in Śródmieście, Północne, Warsaw, Poland, was completed in 1976.
Zupagrafika04The Torwar Estate on Fabryczna street in Solec, Śródmieście, Warsaw, Poland. It was built between 1971 and 1973.
Zupagrafika05A Soviet mosaic adorns a tower block built in the late 1960s on Prospekt Peremohy, in Shuliavka, Shevchenkivskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine.
Zupagrafika06Za Żelazną Bramą Estate on Marszałkowska Street in Śródmieście Północne, Warsaw, Poland. It was constructed between 1965 and 1972.
Zupagrafika07Residential tower blocks built on Obolonskyi Prospekt in Obolon, Obolonskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1981.
Zupagrafika08The Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics towers above the Kalininsky District in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was constructed from 1973 to 1986.
Zupagrafika09A reinforced concrete housing complex near Novosmolenskaya Embankment in Vasileostrovsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built in 1986.
Zupagrafika10The Novoyasenevskiy Prospekt housing complex was built in Yasenevo District, Moscow, Russia, in the mid 1980s.
Zupagrafika11Shevchenko University was built from 1972 to 1980 in Holosiivskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine.
Zupagrafika12Club100, property of the Russian embassy in Warsaw, is located on Sobieskiego Street in Sielce, Mokotów.
Zupagrafika13A 1970s housing complex located near Märkische Allee in Marzahn, Berlin, Germany.
Zupagrafika14Plattenbau on Frankfurter Allee in Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany.
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