- The old poet There is an old man who lives nearby the Narkomfin, notably in the stalinian building build in the place of the 5th element of the narkomfin project; every time he sees someone hanging around and taking pictures, he comes out and start to tell stories about both buildings, and the competition among them to be […]
- Le Corbusier vs. Narkomfin Le Corbusier is considered to be an important influence on Ginzburg’s work, but the Narcomfin in turn is also recognized as an influence for Le Corbusier’s later unitè d’habitation in Marseille. In the early 30s the french architect visited the building. Its consideration of the project is controversial. In his notebook he reports critical opinions […]
- Inside Narkomfin
- Dr. N.A. Semashko People’s commisar of the health. Dr. Semashko is an important figure among the circle of the reformers of the everyday. He lived for a while in the Narkomfin but in 1932 he left his first wife there and moved with the new one in a stalinian building closer to the Cremlin. Before the Revolution there […]
- A.A.Deineka Among the occupants of the Narkomfin building, during the first year there was also Alexander Aleksandrovich Deineka, painter, graphic, member of the Oktober group, author among other works of the wonderful mosaics of the Majakowskaja station of the moscow metro.
- N.A.Milyutin People’s Commissar for the Finance of the USSR, commissioned the Narkomfin House. It was after the revolution that Milyutin became a statesman, but architecture and painting were always the principal passion of his life. He drew all his life, even at he front during he war. In his youth, he lived in St.Petersburg and graduated […]