ABSTRACT
The article is an intermediate result of a step-by-step study of the culture and art center of Leningrad in the era of “constructivism”. It is impossible to identify the features of the culture and art center as a special type of building without analyzing their historical and modern urban planning role in the development of Leningrad. St. Petersburg). The study shows that the culture and art centers of Leningrad were designed as important urban planning elements that are part of building complexes (and sometimes ensembles) that form important urban planning nodes or district centers. This article discusses the culture and art center of the Moscow-Narva district of Leningrad (now the Moscow and Kirov districts): Gorky Palace of Culture (architects A. I. Gegello, D. L. Krichevsky, V. F. Raylian, 1925-1927), Gaz Palace of Culture (architects A. I. Gegello, D. L. Krichevsky, 1930-1935), Kapranov Union of Tanners House of Culture (architect M. S. Reizman, 1930-1931). Demolished in 2006) and the Ilyich House of Culture (architect N. F. Demkov, 1930-1931). It is established that the considered culture and art centers were important elements of the urban-planning ensemble in the system of the compositional and spatial framework of the city and/or part of the architectural and urban-planning complex of buildings of regional significance.
