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[PRE-WAR SOVIET SPORT S ARCHITECTURE] Sportivnyye sooruzheniya [i.e. Sports Facilities]

Kolli, N.

Item #2009

Moscow: Izdvo i tip. Izd-va Akad. arkhitektury SSSR, 1948. 16 pp., 39 ill. 21.5x16.6 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Previous owner’s ink inscription on the front wrapper, otherwise near fine.

Scarce. First and only edition. Edited by A. Vladimirsky. With 39 full-page black-and-white illustrations throughout.
A richly illustrated compilation of the finest achievements in Soviet sports architecture, documenting their initial state before demolition or reconstruction. The book was written by Nikolai Kolli (1894-1966), a prominent Soviet architect renowned for his design of the Izmailovo Central Stadium in 1933. The edition features thirty-nine black-and-white illustrations
showcasing the Soviet Union’s most impressive sports facilities, all erected in the pre-war years. Twenty-five photographs capture sports buildings that have since been demolished. Among them, seven images portray the Central Moscow Dinamo Stadium (tribunes & general views) designed by architects Arkadiy Langman and Lazar Cherikover in 1928 (demolished in 2011). Ten photos feature the main entrance, tribunes, and physical culture pavilion of the Moscow Stalinets Stadium (built in 1935, demolished in the 1950s), along with the tribunes and tower of the Moscow Dinamo Water Station (built in 1935, demolished in the 2000s). Six photos show the general view and separate architectural elements of the Beria Dinamo Stadium in Tbilisi (built in 1936, closed in 1976). There are also four interesting photographs of the first Collective Farm Stadium in the village of Chapaevka in Ukraine (built in 1936, demolished in the 1970s).

About eight photos show sports facilities that were built in the 1920s-1930s and reconstructed several times since then. Four photographs (general view & tribunes) capture the Khrushev Stadium in Kyiv (built in 1923, today NSC Olympic), three images (pavilion & tribunes) depict the Dinamo Stadium in Yerevan (built in 1933-1935), and one image documents the general view of the Dinamo Stadium in Odessa (built in 1937). The rest of the photos show a sportsmanege in Leningrad, the Dinamo Stadium in Tula, and the first springboard for ski jumping in Uktus mountains, Sverdlovsk. The edition includes a foreword by Kolli exploring the Soviet sports architecture of the recent years. Overall, a historically interesting book with 39 black-and-white photographs of Soviet sports facilities.

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