While Yekaterinburg?s avant-garde architecture is the city?s hallmark, and Moscow?s avant-garde is the subject of arguments, in Saint Petersburg the prominence of the style and its influence are somewhat harder to identify. Some researchers even suggest that the avant-garde is an ?outcast? or a ?non-existent style? here, and its presence in has remained largely unrecognized. Alexander Strugach sheds light on this phenomenon:

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While Yekaterinburg?s avant-garde architecture is the city?s hallmark, and Moscow?s avant-garde is the subject of arguments, in Saint Petersburg the prominence of the style and its influence are somewhat harder to identify. Some researchers even suggest that the avant-garde is an ?outcast? or a ?non-existent style? here, and its presence in has remained largely unrecognized. Alexander Strugach sheds light on this phenomenon: In Saint Petersburg, the avant-garde style is simply overshadowed by an abundance of Baroque, Modernist and Classical architecture, and is not yet considered an accomplished cultural heritage category. Meanwhile, gradual deterioration makes proving the cultural value of avant-garde buildings even more difficult.
In this article?written by Svetlana Kondratyeva and with photographs by Leonid Balanev?which originally appeared on Strelka Magazine, experts on the Russian avant-garde put forward ten of the most imp...