About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Efimov D.D. – post-graduate student E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 |
| Title of the article | The Kazan Circus as an architectural heritage-listed building of the Soviet modernism period: history of design and construction, origins of the architectonic formation, importance for the development of architecture of circuses |
| Abstract. | Problem statement. The article deals with the matters relating to the design and construction of the Kazan Circus. It also deals with the matters relating to the architectural image, constructive solution, and the origins of the architectonic formation. It proves the uniqueness of this structure, and its value as architectural heritage-listed building of the Soviet modernism period for the Russian historical and cultural heritage. Results. The study revealed that the architecture of the Kazan Circus was influenced by various historical, architectural and socio-economic aspects: the active formation of a new modernist aesthetics of the post-war period of Soviet architecture, the rapid development of technical progress in the second half of the 20th century in the field of construction technologies, structures, engineering. This research reveals the peculiarities of the creative method of architects, the design techniques characteristic of the Soviet modernism period, based on the interaction of soviet and modern foreign experience in construction and architecture in combination with modern technological and engineering achievements of the USSR after the Second World War. Conclusions. The obtained research data give an idea of the peculiarities of the creative process at the regional level, with the system of centralized and unified design existing in the USSR, under the conditions of the planned economy, and also allow to study and analyze in detail the architectural heritage of the Soviet modernism period, using the example of the Kazan Circus, to assess its contribution to the development of the soviet and world architecture. |
| Keywords. | the Kazan State Circus, architectural monument, historical and cultural value of regional architectural heritage of the Soviet modernism period. |
| For citations: | Efimov D.D. The Kazan Circus as an architectural heritage-listed building of the Soviet modernism period: history of design and construction, origins of the architectonic formation, importance for the development of architecture of circuses // Izvestiya KGASU. 2017. №2(40) P.7-17. |
