Soviet Modernism: Architecture Worth Saving

From Ukraine With Love

This week Kyiv Post podcast host Elina Kent sits down with photographer, architecture and monumental art researcher Dmytro Solovyov (@ukrainianmodernism) to discuss Kyiv's famous and extraordinary Soviet Modernist structures.

The buildings and locations attract foreigners from all over the world. But the post soviet country and its people want to break away from Soviet memories. The slow erasure of these historical structures has recently been met with resistance some resistance. Soviet Modernism might be architecture worth saving.

Full transcript of the podcast is on our website kyivpost.com