Brutalist Housing Estates in the USSR and in the West — History, Function, Form

This paper offers a detailed examination of Western and Soviet housing estates built in the brutalist style, in the late 1950s-1970s in the West and in the late 1960s – 1980s in the USSR. Analysis centers on a chronological overview of the brutalist housing estates in the West and in the USSR, their comparison and detailed formal-stylistic analysis. This article intends to fully explore historical, political, economic, social and cultural context and its influence on the formation of the studied architectural style. The research is devoted to the problem of uncertainty of some features of the term. On the basis of the studied prerequisites for the formation of this architectural movement, its characteristic features were determined and were identified Soviet examples of brutalist architecture. Soviet brutalism has not yet been the subject of serious professional study. On the existing world map of brutalist architecture, presented by the German project #SOSBrutalism, the USSR is practically not represented, so the purpose of this paper was to identify examples of brutalist housing estates on the territory of the former Soviet republics.