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# Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka buildings during the construction of Kalinin Avenue in the 1960s
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/smetaia-zamsheluiu-poshlost-domov-prikornuvshikh-gorbato-vedutsia-na-polnuiu-moshchnost-raboty-v-raione-arbata/
- Published: 2021-08-20T09:29:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:03:47.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Architecture, Moscow, Heritage

Sweeping away the mouldy vulgarity of Houses that huddle hunchbacked, Work proceeds at full throttle In the district of the Arbat...

Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the old buildings of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka complex in the 1960s, when Kalinin Avenue, now Novy Arbat, was driven through

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