Civil Construction in Industrial Prokop’evsk: between the General’ny’j Plan and Shanty Towns (1928 – 1941)

Student: Pashenko Alexandr

Supervisor: Boris Stepanov

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper is concerned with the history of civil construction in Prokop'evsk in the period from 1928 to 1941. During that interval, the coal center of Kuzbass get through a series of phases of urban transformation, each one has seriously changed its structure and exterior appearance: from a shanty-towns to the Socgorod Tyrgan, from mass barracks construction to the building stone “udarnik” houses, from an unregular conglomerate of mining settlement to a socialist city with the master plan (“general’ny’j plan”). Each of these stages is analyzed on the basis of a wide body of unpublished and published sources. An important result of the research is the attribution of several architectural objects and the description of the “historical- architectural core " of Prokop’evsk.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses