About the Book

Through nine chapters with over 130 photographs taken by Russian photographer Alexander Veryovkin, Monotowns by Zupagrafika captures the post-industrial landscapes and Soviet-era architecture of the monogorods extending from the Arctic Circle to the Russian Far East, such as Vorkuta, Norilsk, Mirny, Kirovsk, Tolyatti, Cherepovets, Magnitogorsk, Monchegorsk and Nikel, and the daily lives of their inhabitants.

Includes informative texts providing a valuable insight into the urban development of the featured cities and a foreword by the architectural critic Konstantin Budarin.

‍”The Soviet economy was organised according to five-year plans, with the whole country operating like an enormous corporation. Monotowns were like different departments within this corporation.”
— Excerpt from the foreword

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Name: Monotowns
Brand: Zupagrafika
SKU: 18833
Price: 23.00 GBP
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Zupagrafika

Zupagrafika is an independent publisher, author and graphic design studio established in Poznań, Poland, in 2012. The founders are designer and photographer David Navarro, and writer Martyna Sobecka. Zupagrafika celebrates modernist architecture, design and photography in a unique and playful way.

Over the last decade, David and Martyna have created, illustrated and published award-winning books and model kits exploring the post-war modernist and brutalist architecture of the former Eastern Bloc and beyond. Their publications have featured contributions by such architects and writers as: Norman Foster, John Grindrod, Barnabas Calder, Christopher Beanland, Konstantin Budarin, Anna Cymer or Florian Heilmeyer.

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