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Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk. Khrushchevkas (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings (and apartments in these buildings) which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s (when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet ...
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk Brick khrushchevka in Tomsk. A khrushchevka (Russian: хрущёвка, romanized: khrushchyovka, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfkə]) is a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building which was developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s, during the time its namesake Nikita Khrushchev directed the Soviet government. [1]
The mass resettlement and demolition of five-story houses from the period of early panel housing construction, known as khrushchevka, was started by Moscow Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov in the 1990s and was carried out as part of the "Program for the Comprehensive Reconstruction of Five-Story Building Areas of the First Period of Industrial Housing Construction."
A brezhnevka (Russian: брежневка) is a concrete apartment building that was built in the Soviet Union from 1964–1980 under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, after whom the building type is named. [1] The brezhnevka was preceded by the khrushchevka.
His studies of low-cost prefabricated concrete construction, supported by Nikita Khrushchev, led to a complete switch of Soviet building practice from masonry to prefab concrete. Lagutenko designed the standardized 5-story apartment houses, known as khrushchevka, and associated technologies of fast, mass-scale construction. These low-cost ...
In 1959, the relevance of this problem at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU was emphasized by Khrushchev, who advocated for the massive construction of pre-fabricated apartment buildings of 5 floors and nicknamed Khrushchevka, designed by the architect Vitaly Lagutenko in order to overcome to extreme housing deficit.
A Soviet building would typically be 5 stories tall, sometimes 3-4 (in smaller towns). I think the building codes required an elevator in taller buildings, so you'd hardly ever see a 6- or 7-story building. (Newer, post-Khrushchev elevator-equipped buildings - from the 1970s on - would usually have 9 or 12 floors, or [in bigger cities] more).
Khrushchevka; Kokoshnik architecture; L. Lakhta Centre; List of buildings of pre-Mongol Rus' N. Narkomtiazhprom Building; Naryshkin Baroque; Neoclassical architecture ...