Burevestnik Club

In 1927, the Burevestnik Local Labor Union decided to establish a club for workers. In the same year architect Konstantin Melnikov was requested to develop the club's design. At that time designing worker's clubs was a completely new discipline. The need for this type of public building had emerged out of the social and economic situation in the first post-Revolutionary decade, and their functions and programmes had not been fully developed yet. Among the architects searching for new artistic and technical solutions Konstantin Melnikov was the most active and daring. The shape and spatial solution for the Burevestnik Club building was mainly dictated by the configuration of the site allocated for the construction. The building is an architectural monument enjoying official state protection. At present, the Russian Avantgarde Foundation's headquarters occupies the building.