Maslennikova driveway as the dream of socialist Kuibyshev realization

Abstract

The development of Maslennikova Driveway is considered, which became the first street in the city of Kuibyshev (Samara), built in accordance with the ideas about the image of a new socialist city. Geographically, this street was located outside the historically formed city, in the so-called middle zone, which made it possible to implement the idea of its architectural organization on the principles of building an architectural ensemble. The development is represented by 4-5-storey residential buildings built under one cornice and designed in the same style of the Soviet classics. It was a departmental development that belonged to two large enterprises plant number 42 (ZiM) and 4 GPPs. The architectural and urban planning solution of the street and the projects of individual quarters and buildings were developed by the Kuibyshev Gorproekt, the Leningrad Gorstroyproekt and the Giproaviaprom branch.