100-Flat Building
On Krasny Prospekt stands an eight-storey block built for Soviet officialdom, its facade borrowing from Parisian modernism while its plan promised the comforts of a vanished bourgeois world.
At a glance
Known locally as the Stokvartirny House, or “100-Flat Building,” this Novosibirsk residence was designed by Andrey Kryachkov with Vitaly Maslennikov and completed in 1937. It is protected today as a monument of federal cultural significance, its blend of neoclassical order and Art Deco detailing rare for the city.
History
Construction began in 1934. The building was conceived as an elite residential complex, its 100 apartments arranged in a hierarchy of suites: ten with five bedrooms, thirty with four, forty with three, and twenty with two, some including small rooms for domestic staff. Partway through design, Maslennikov reworked the exterior. He introduced facade elements inspired by the French architect Auguste Perret, complicating what had been a simpler scheme. The gamble paid off internationally. At the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques in Paris, the project won a first-degree diploma, a gold medal, and a Grand Prix alongside other works by Kryachkov. A monument to the architect was placed before the building in 2008. Kryachkov himself never lived there, despite persistent local belief otherwise.
What you see
The building rises eight floors above the prospekt, its mass ordered by a restrained classical rhythm. Perret’s influence shows in the disciplined treatment of the facade, a grid of verticals and horizontals rather than applied ornament. Inside, the original suites were laid out with generous living and utility rooms, a spatial luxury unusual for Soviet housing of the period. Ceilings are high. Corridors were planned for ease, not economy.
Cultural significance
The building’s Paris award placed Novosibirsk architecture briefly on an international stage during the 1930s. Its resident list reads like a cross-section of Soviet achievement: physicist Gersh Budker, cardiologist Eugeny Meshalkin, surgeon Vladimir Mysh, biathlete Alexander Tikhonov, conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky, and actors Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Simonov, and Vasili Merkuryev all lived within its walls at various times. The house has become a fixture of local identity, referenced alongside other Novosibirsk landmarks such as the House of Socialist Agriculture and the Oblplan House.
Key facts
- Location: Krasny Prospekt 16, Tsentralny District, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Built: 1934–1937
- Architects: Andrey Kryachkov and Vitaly Maslennikov
- Style: Neoclassicism with Art Deco facade elements, influenced by Auguste Perret
- Status: Federal cultural heritage monument
- Original capacity: 100 apartments; now 110
Practical information & getting there
The building stands on Krasny Prospekt, Novosibirsk’s central avenue, making it easy to find on foot from the city centre. It remains a private residential building, so interiors are not open to visitors. You can view the exterior and the Kryachkov monument from the street at any time.
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