Reconstruction of the remembrance: Palace of Culture in Slantsy

• Main Author: Tatiana Sergeevna Reshetnikova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2019-12-01
• Series: Frontiers of Architectural Research
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263519300500

Impressive public architecture has a power to influence and imbue a space with a legend and cultural and social values and accumulate collective memories. A Palace of Culture, or Dvorets Kul'tury in Russian, represents a socialist belief, commonwealth, and people's democracy. The monumental Stalinist Palace of Culture is a multifunctional public architecture that was built as a sociocultural epicenter in many Soviet cities. The case of the Palace of Culture in Slantsy, which is a mining town in Leningrad Region in Russia, may be an eloquent projection of this building type and its era. The edifice is currently under reconstruction after its abandonment for a long time, thereby entailing the reincarnation of citizens' memories and the creation of new hopes and experiences. Keywords: Neoclassicism, Palace of culture, Collective memory, Sociocultural values, Reconstruction, Slantsy town