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  2. Khrushchevka - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Cinema of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.

  4. Category : Buildings and structures built in the Soviet Union

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    Narkomfin building; National Historical and Archaeological Museum Complex Sulayman; Nizhny Novgorod Metro; NKVD buildings; NKVD House (Serebrennikovskaya Street 23) Novosibirsk Metro; Novosibirsk State Art Museum

  5. State Committee for Cinematography - Wikipedia

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    The first main film production and distribution organisation in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1924 was Goskino; this was succeeded by Sovkino from 1924 to 1930, and then replaced with Soyuzkino in 1930 chaired by Martemyan Ryutin, [1] which had jurisdiction over the entire USSR until 1933, when it was then replaced by GUKF (The Chief Directorate of the Film and Photo ...

  6. Cinema of the Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent cinema was opened in St Petersburg in 1896 at Nevsky Prospect, No. 46. The first Russian movies were shown in the Moscow Korsh Theatre by artist Vladimir Sashin. After purchasing a Vitagraph projector, Sashin started to make short films, which by August 1896 were being demonstrated to theatre audiences after the theatre ...

  7. Russian Futurism - Wikipedia

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    Russian Futurist cinema refers to the futurist movement in Soviet cinema. Russian Futurist cinema was deeply influenced by the films of Italian futurism (1916–1919) most of which are lost today. Some of the film directors identified as part of this movement are Lev Kuleshov , Dziga Vertov , Sergei Eisenstein , Vsevolod Pudovkin and Aleksandr ...

  8. Palace of Culture - Wikipedia

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    Gorbunov Palace of Culture Peasants' Palace of Culture in Dajipu township, Huangshi Municipality, Hubei, China. Palace of Culture (Russian: Дворец культуры, romanized: dvorets kultury, Chinese: 文化宫, wénhuà gōng, German: Kulturpalast) or House of Culture (Polish: dom kultury) is a common name (generic term) for major club-houses (community centres) in the former Soviet ...

  9. Russian speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet era was the golden age of Russian science fiction. [8] Soviet writers were innovative, numerous and prolific, [9] despite limitations set up by state censorship. Both Russian and foreign writers of science fiction enjoyed mainstream popularity in the Soviet Union, and many books were adapted for film and animation.