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Social and Cultural Center

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Purpose....... earlier the House of Political Education of the City Committee of the CPSU in Kamensk-Uralsky, nowadays the Social and Cultural Center.

Location........ Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia

Style..... Soviet Modernism

Year of putting into operation....... 1981

 

History

 

In 1978 in the Kamensk-Uralsky by the city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) the ideological organization of the House of Political Education (HPE) was founded. Its main activity was the political study of propagandists, political reformers, agitators for the city's enterprises.

 

The building for the HPE have being built almost ten years on funds of party fees and was the property of the CPSU. In July 1, 1981 the object was put into operation, and the party library moved first in it. It was an elite organization, closed to the public access. There were a lot of rare books in the library in a single copy.

 

After August 1991, in the city as in the whole country anarchy reigned for two months, the building was sealed. HPE as an ideological organization ceased to exist. The building was transferred to the department of culture, and it housed a new organization - the Social and Cultural Center, which exists to this day. Various city events, concerts, exhibitions, competitions, etc. are held here. The Great Hall is also a philharmonic hall where you can hear classical, jazz, popular and folk music.

 

 

About the model

 

The model is built on a scale of 1: 700. The building located on a natural elevation, so the cascade of stairs leads to the main entrance. A massive parallelepiped above the central entrance rests on columns, on the right and left glazed wings. The whole appearance of the building corresponds to the architectural style of the 70-80s. In order to adequately convey all the altitudinal differences in the model, a transition to half the height of the plate was used.

 

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Uploaded on May 6, 2018