🏛 Gavan Workers' Town

Гаванская ул., 47

Experimental 1906 housing for workers by the engineers Dmitriev and Fyodorov — with a nursery, school and canteen.

The town was built in 1904–1906 on the initiative of the lawyer Dmitry Dril; the engineer Dmitriev was sent specially to study cheap housing in Europe.
It had 200 apartments of 1–3 rooms and 110 rooms with shared kitchens for single tenants.
Rent was noticeably cheaper than in tenement houses: a one-room apartment cost 8.5–12 rubles a month.
Since the early 1980s the end wall of house No. 69 has carried a 15×5 m mural: by one account it was painted by Mukhina School students.
In the 1920s a club of the Sevkabel plant with a cinema hall opened in the former library and lecture hall.

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