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Alien architecture: The crazy space-age superstructures that signalled the downfall of the Soviet Union
They look like Hollywood sets that never quite made it onto the big screen.
But these space-age buildings actually sprang up during the politically repressed era of Soviet Russia.
While some wouldn't look out of place in Star Wars, their artistic flamboyance has come to symbolise the downfall of the mighty Soviet Union
Space age: The architecture faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk, with its succession of overhanging lecture theaters
Alien architecture: The designers of the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development in Kiev must have hoped their flying saucer construction would provide some useful inspiration for those inside
Menacing: When it was built in the mid-1980s, the West initially suspected it was a missile launcher. But this incredible construction is actually the Druzhba health spa in the Ukrainian resort of Yalta
In a Soviet republic far, far, away: The Palace of Ceremonies in Tblisi, Georgia, was built in 1984 as a church and wedding venue, but looks more like a lair in Star Wars
The designs that never made it to Hollywood: The Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics in St Petersburg, Russia (top), and the Soviet embassy in Havana, Cuba
Alien architecture: The crazy space-age superstructures that signalled the downfall of the Soviet Union
They look like Hollywood sets that never quite made it onto the big screen.
But these space-age buildings actually sprang up during the politically repressed era of Soviet Russia.
While some wouldn't look out of place in Star Wars, their artistic flamboyance has come to symbolise the downfall of the mighty Soviet Union
Space age: The architecture faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk, with its succession of overhanging lecture theaters
Alien architecture: The designers of the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development in Kiev must have hoped their flying saucer construction would provide some useful inspiration for those inside
Menacing: When it was built in the mid-1980s, the West initially suspected it was a missile launcher. But this incredible construction is actually the Druzhba health spa in the Ukrainian resort of Yalta
In a Soviet republic far, far, away: The Palace of Ceremonies in Tblisi, Georgia, was built in 1984 as a church and wedding venue, but looks more like a lair in Star Wars
The designs that never made it to Hollywood: The Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics in St Petersburg, Russia (top), and the Soviet embassy in Havana, Cuba
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