USSR Embassy in Havana
Arch: Aleksandr Rochegov (1917-1998)
#6402 Quinta Avenida, Mirar District, Havana
Project: 1975-1987
First USSR embassy occupied an old seminary building until 1986. (Photo 1974)
Washington, Arch: M. Posokhin, 1979
GDR, Arch: A. Struzhevsky, 1953
Helsinki, Arch: D. Romodin, 1952
Rio, Arch: Posokhin, 1968
Druzhba Sanatorium, Crimea.
Arch:N Vasilevsky, 1985
"The process was not straightforward, for the structures and surfaces of the infrastructure acted not as templates for generating the designated idea but like reflectors that deflected it and made is swerve aside." Ideology in Infrastructure, 42
Russian school in USSR Embassy, Cuba 1987
"The Soviet Person on Cuba"
Stalinist Neoclassical Style in Moscow: Leningradskaya Tower Hotel, 1954 .
Since 2008 Hilton Hotel
Houses along Leningradsky Boulevard, 1948
Rebuilding of Tashkent city-centre post 1966 earthquake.
Shopping Mall "Moskovsky", 1975
Design of new system "KOPE" of 12-18 floor housing compounds.
Embassy Tower and Leningradskaya Tower:
138 m/17floors
"The Fifth Avenida in Havana is a parade-like street with a boulevard in the center. Close by, is the sound of the Mexican Sound. The Cubans were specific about the construction requirements for the territory: along Fifth Avenida, a structure of 2-3 floors; away from the Avenida it was permitted to place a tall building, further in, of 6-8 floors. These requirements were adhered to in the project. In the project, all the buildings are raised from the ground, and there is an absence of rooms in the first floors. This is made for the natural air circulation and for the creation of shade. The composition with the tall building in the center will blend well." A. Rochegov
Embassy interior by Rochegov's daughter, A Rochegova
Cuba-Soviet Relations in the Gorbachev Era, Mervyn J. Bain, 2005
Ideology and Infrastructure: Archtecture in the Soviet Imagination, Caroline Humphrey, 2005