Thousands of houses of various models and designs have been built in Minsk. The panels spread throughout the capital in an almost uniform layer. And in Minsk there are single houses built according to separate projects. It is curious that they, as a rule, “huddle” next to each other, but some seem to “run away” to the other end of the city. Blizko.by studied this interesting phenomenon.
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“Czech” high-rise buildings in Uruchye
In Uruchya-2 there are three high-rise buildings – “columns” of 21 floors, which at one time were the tallest residential buildings in Minsk. Popular rumor attributes these houses to a certain “Czech” project. In fact, the words “Czech project” are simply a conventional term that describes houses with non-standard apartment layouts – not the same as the standard series found in the vast majority of cases. Is the kitchen larger than usual (say 9-10 square meters)? Say “Czech project.” Huge square hallway? Say “Czech project.” Are the bathroom and kitchen located in different parts of the apartment? Say “Czech project”. Loggias for 2 rooms? Say “Czech project”. But in fact, the project is completely Belarusian: the author of these high-rise buildings in Uruchye is Anatoly Fridman, head of the monolithic construction department at Belgosproekt.
These monolithic houses with the addresses Shugaeva Street, 7, 9 and 11 were built in 1988-1997, each took three years. Perhaps it was precisely because of the difficulty of mastering a monolithic frameless structure that the construction took so long. So, another house in this series “ran away” to the South-West and was registered at 16/1 Golubeva Street. It was built in parallel with the Uruch ones, in 1994-1998. And another similar house, they say, “ran away” very far away: to Vitebsk.
Belokonya skyscrapers in the East
In the northern part of the Vostok microdistrict (or rather, Vostok-1), three high-rise buildings were erected on a natural hill. Their addresses are Kalinovsky Street, 54, buildings 1-3. From the outside they may seem triangular, but in fact, of course, they are quadrangular and square in plan. Actually, these are standard, serial houses, this series has its own index: E-187. It was developed in the 1970s in Moscow at the Central Research Institute for Experimental Housing Design, where the architect Alexander Belokon, who initiated the spread of monolithic reinforced concrete, worked. Houses built according to Belokon’s designs appeared in Brest, Minsk, Ufa, Samara, Naberezhnye Chelny and other cities. Minsk received houses “from Belokon” of several projects. In the Vostok region, as we noted, three “columns” of the E-187 series were registered. Although in the thematic literature they say “houses designed by Alexander Belokon,” in fact, of course, a team of authors worked on the series: A. Belokon, G. Sysoev, I. Popova, N. Gracheva. It may seem that these three buildings in the East are the same, but they have different number of storeys: 16, 18 and 20 floors (64, 72 and 80 apartments, respectively), they were built from 1972 to 1976.
Another house of this series (also 16 floors) was built literally across the road, in the Vostok-2 microdistrict, on Slavinsky Street, 43. Moreover, it was actually the very first: it was built in 1971-1973, but everything is better known the trinity on the hill on Kalinovsky. But another “fugitive” made it far: to Kurasovshchina, on Landera Street, 54. Finally, houses of the same series (including a variation of 12 floors, unprecedented for Minsk) are found in Moscow, Belgorod and Yoshkar-Ola.
“Anticorn” in Vesnyanka
In 1990, in the Vesnyanka microdistrict, they started the construction of monolithic frameless high-rise buildings with 20 floors, designed by architect Vladimir Pushkin. You may not know this architect and these Vesnyansk skyscrapers, but you definitely know another project of Pushkin: the “corn” houses along Vera Khoruzhey Street. So, the construction of very angular – well, just the antipodes of “corn” – houses stretched out: the first was commissioned in 1994, and the last, fourth, only in 2001. They all have one address number, divided into four buildings: Lesi Ukrainki Street, 6, buildings 1-4.
When these houses were still in process, they started to build two “fugitive” houses of the same series in parallel. They are almost exactly the same, only the balconies on the upper floors are spread out differently. One is in the South-West, on Gazeta Pravda Avenue, 46 (1994-1998), and the second is in Serebryanka, on Rokossovsky Avenue, 64. The construction of this Serebryanka copy took eight long years (1996-2004).
We mapped all the Minsk houses of the three described series: in blue – conventionally Uruch high-rise buildings from Fridman, in red – eastern high-rise buildings from Belokon, in green – Vesnyansk high-rise buildings from Pushkin.
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