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"Celebrating Soviet Architecture\nAD goes inside Fr\u00E9d\u00E9ric Chaubin's fascinating new book, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed\nIn his new book, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (Taschen, $60), lensman Fr\u00E9d\u00E9ric Chaubin explores an often-overlooked period of Soviet architecture: 1970 to 1990. Over seven years Chaubin\u2014editor in chief of the French magazine Citizen K\u2014traveled the hinterlands and metropolitan centers of the 15 former Soviet republics to capture 90 jaw-droppingly odd, innovative, and beautiful buildings from the latter days of the Communist regime. Click through our slide show to see highlights from the book.\nThe Georgian Ministry of Highways in Tbilisi, Georgia, a 1974 structure designed by George Chakhava, Zurab Dzhalaganiya, Temur Tkhilava, and V. Klinberg.\nVladimir Somov's Fyodor Dostoyevsky Theater of Dramatic Art, built in 1987 in Novgorod, Russia.\nThe Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, designed by Yuri Platonov (1988).\nThe Poplakov Caf\u00E9 (1976), built atop the Dnieper river in the Ukraine.\nA circa-1985 winter-sports resort in Dombai, Kabardino-Balkaria.\nThe summer residence of the president of Armenia on Lake Sevan, built in 1976.\nThe Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, designed in 1968 by architects Artur Tarkhanyan and Sashur Kalashyan.\nThe Palace of Ceremonies (1985) in Tbilisi, Georgia, by R. Dzorbenadze and Vazha Orbeladze.\nA 1985 crematorium by Avraham Miletski in Kiev, Ukraine.\nThe Monument to the Battle of Bash-Aparan (1979) in Armenia, designed by Rafael Israelyan.\nThe Lenin Museum (1970) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, designed by Yevgeny Rozanov and Vladamir Shestopalov.\nThe Chisinau circus (1981) in Moldova, by Semyon Shoikhet and A. Kirichenko.\nThe Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (1987) in St. Petersburg, by S. Savin and B. Artiushin.\nA 1983 Holocaust memorial by Alfonsas Ambraziunas at the Ninth Fort at Kaunas in Lithuania.\nThe mosaic children's pool at a resort in Adler, Russia, designed by Zurab Tsereteli in 1973."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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