Khamovniki: Housing, Food and Leisure
Not isolated masterpieces, but the full set of functions a new working-class district needed.
Khamovniki is less about any one landmark than about seeing housing, education and leisure planned together as one system — living quarters, a dormitory, and Konstantin Melnikov’s factory club standing in for a working-class district’s full daily life.
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- Usachevka Workers' SettlementAlexander Meshkov, Nikolai Molokov, and and a collective of architects
A complete planned district in Khamovniki, built to house, feed, wash and educate an entire working population: apartment blocks, a bathhouse, a factory-kitchen and a school laid out together rather than left to develop piecemeal.
- Institute of Red Professors DormitoryDmitry Osipov and Alexey Rukhlyadev
A dormitory built in Khamovniki for the Institute of Red Professors, part of the same wave of housing and educational buildings that turned the district into a working model of Soviet daily life in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Kauchuk Factory ClubKonstantin Melnikov
One of Konstantin Melnikov's workers' clubs, built for the employees of the Kauchuk rubber factory in Khamovniki.