Belyayevo Forever: A Soviet Microrayon on its Way to the UNESCO List

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Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic Such is the case with Belyayevo, an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a typical microrayon - the standardised neighbourhood system that successive Soviet regimes laid out across the USSR in

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Kuba Snopek is a Polish architect and researcher. A graduate of City Planning at the Wroclaw University of Technology (2009) and Preservation at the Strelka Institute, he is an expert in Soviet mass housing, preservation of the intangible heritage and post-communist cities.