Stalinki
Nikita Khruschev's Khruschyovka architecture of the 60s and 70s has been satirized, memorialized, and much-maligned (despite its awesome building ends, grills, and balcony panels), but there's an entire generation of Soviet architecture that gets overlooked in the rush to poo-poo those grey modernist blocks: the classical buildings favored by Stalin, called Stalinkas [Сталинки].
Stalinkas, which reached their apex of form in the triumphant post-war years, can be identified by their low profile (no more than two or three stories), plaster cornices, carved stone balconies (with wrought-iron railings), windows with Arabic-style arches, pilasters and rosettes. National symbols are used widely throughout.
Stalinkas, which reached their apex of form in the triumphant post-war years, can be identified by their low profile (no more than two or three stories), plaster cornices, carved stone balconies (with wrought-iron railings), windows with Arabic-style arches, pilasters and rosettes. National symbols are used widely throughout.
