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      🏛 Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel

      просп. Ленина, 69

      An NKVD commune quarter of 1929–1936: the horseshoe of the Iset Hotel, a club with a cylinder and residential blocks set at an angle to the street.

      Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
      © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
      © MBH · CC BY 4.0
      Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
      © MBH · CC BY 4.0
      • The complex was built in 1929–1936 for OGPU–NKVD staff; the lead architect was I. P. Antonov.
      • There are 14 buildings in all; the largest is the 11-storey “horseshoe”, later the Iset Hotel.
      • The residential blocks are turned at 10 degrees to the street line — this gives the quarter its rhythm.
      • The Dzerzhinsky Club with its side cylinder was linked to the “horseshoe” by an overhead walkway.
      • Chekists’ Town is a monument of federal importance.

      Part of these routes

      • Constructivism: from the House of Offices to Chekists’ Town
      • All day: Constructivism, Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents

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