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Center of Everything
This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #2964 and artworks of Lisitsky. Circles have a special place in Soviet architecture and paintings of suprematists. That is why the core of this Punk is a circle and it's built almost only with them. "All roads lead to Rome? No. All roads lead to a circle". That's an ironic slogan that defines some features of Soviet architecture and projects. For example, for a project of cities in the north, architects suggested the circular shape of the buildings because it would retain heat better and avoid heavy snow drifts near the walls.
One of arctic city projects
In the mid-1960s, several projects like these were approved by the USSR State Construction Committee for construction in the Yakut ASSR, but for various reasons none of them were ever implemented, except for the construction of one roofed gallery between several residential buildings in the village of Udachny. Already in the mid-1970s, the previously widespread images of modernist cities for the North were practically disappearing.
Sculpture of VDNH Pavilion No. 21 "Gas Industry"
On the circular square in front of the pavilion where Soviet republics showed their achievements in industries, there used to be two abstract sculptures made of differently colored sections of gas pipes of different diameters, symbolizing the developing gas pipeline network. One composition is vertical from pipes of different heights, the other one is similar to a planetary system - from pipe slices enclosed one into another. It is the only composition that has survived.
Korkyt Ata memorial complex
This architectural monument at first glance looks like something between the structures of an ancient civilization and an alien spaceport. There you can find an amphitheater that reminds of a place for landing, and the vertical structure similar to alien radars. But this is just a memorial complex consisting of several structures. The complex was erected in this place for a reason: here, on the bank of the Syrdarya River in Kazakhstan a famous Turkic poet and composer, Korkyt Ata, was born. In 1980, the complex was built by architect B. Ibraev and physicist-acoustics S. Isataev at the site of the former burial place. The most interesting is the "Singing Trumpets" monument.
It represents four kobyzas (special constructions that work like musical instruments), which look to the four corners of the world. Between them is a set of pipes, on which the wind plays its intricate music. The architect used the aerodynamic effect when creating this monument: in the "Singing Trumpets", the pipes are suspended from the ceiling, and the steppe wind blowing on them extracts the melodies of the kobyz (a national Kazakh musical instrument). "The Pyramid of Wishes" that places on the right side is another unusual structure. One should go around it three times, then take off the shoes, go inside the pyramid and ask the sky to fulfill one's cherished desires. The sacred place is only 70 kilometers from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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