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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. Mosfilm - Wikipedia

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    Old Mosfilm logo Entrance sign to Mosfilm Studios in Mosfilmovskaya Street.. The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Aleksandr Adabashyan - Wikipedia

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    Between 1997 and 1998 Adabashyan directed two operas: Boris Godunov for the Mariinsky Theatre and Khovanshchina for the La Scala opera house. [4] He also worked as an interior designer in several Moscow restaurants. Adabashyan has been married twice. His first wife was Marina Lebesheva, the sister of the acclaimed Russian cinematographer Pavel ...

  7. Stalinist architecture - Wikipedia

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    Stalinist architecture (Russian: Сталинская архитектура), [a] mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and ...

  8. Ivan Bolshakov - Wikipedia

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    Five–Year Plan for the Restoration and Development of Soviet Cinematography / Ivan Bolshakov, Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union – 2nd Edition (Revised) – Moscow: State Publishing House of Cinematic Literature, 1946 (Printing House "Red Banner") – 47 Pages; Soviet Cinema in 1947: Transcript of a Public Lecture Delivered on ...

  9. Armenfilm - Wikipedia

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    The studio company was founded on 16 April 1923 as a production unit of the Soviet State Cinema Organization, with Daniel Dznuni as the first director. [1] Armenfilm was sold by the state to private investors in 2005 with a long list of conditions to revitalize the studio's equipment and produce new content.