Author and photographer Frederic Chaubin undertook a decade-long mission to visit and document examples of grand – but often forgotten – Soviet architecture dating from the 1970s and 1980s.
"Powerful and dreamlike," the buildings defy the idea of "the post-Soviet world seen in terms of decay," he says.
Chaubin assembled his work into a book called CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (Taschen). He spoke to RFE/RL about his quest to document these architectural treasures.
(Originally published in June 2011 and updated to coincide with the book's recent reissue)
"Powerful and dreamlike," the buildings defy the idea of "the post-Soviet world seen in terms of decay," he says.
Chaubin assembled his work into a book called CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (Taschen). He spoke to RFE/RL about his quest to document these architectural treasures.
(Originally published in June 2011 and updated to coincide with the book's recent reissue)
