Exhibition-research "First avant-garde's one in the urals. House for gospromural specialists in project by ginzburg, during construction and in stories of dwellers"

During the frontier years of the 1920s and 1930s, Sverdlovsk was under a significant construction. Selected as the capital of the vast Ural region and a hub for industrialization, it was complete within a few years. In its early days as a provincial town, the construction of mass housing began. However, the first buildings erected by the City Council were not entirely experimental; they utilized existing technologies and architectural plans borrowed from pre-revolutionary apartment houses.

French architectural researcher of the 20th century, Jean-Louis Cohen, who visited Ekaterinburg in October 2017, referred to these houses as "constructivistic" and observed that there are not many truly constructivist houses in Ekaterinburg. Thus, this house stands out as one of them. Located at Malysheva Street 21, the house was constructed for specialists of Gospromural and holds significance in terms of chronology, engineering ideas, and apartment plans. It was the first of its kind in this regard. Residents moved into the house in 1931, even as other buildings were still under construction. Unfortunately, the 1930s marked a period of both new constructivist architecture and Stalin-era mass repressions.

Different fragments of the historical mosaic combined in a complex archive research with three key parts - project (1928-1929), construction (1929-1931) and daily routine of first decades (1931-1957).

We have to admit the Sverdlovsk engineers of that time didn't have technological base and organisational experience to bring new architectural ideas to the end. But the time put all in place: avant-garde epoch, created a turning point in art, urban planning and architecture, was recognised as historical important one. And ideas of that time through decades are getting popular and successfully implemented.