Svoboda Factory Club, Constructivist clubhouse in Savyolovsky District, Moscow, Russia.

The Svoboda Factory Club is a rectangular masonry building in Moscow. It features a central column with a speaker's platform, two asymmetrical end blocks, and straight staircases that connect the elevated main hall to ground level.

The building was completed in 1929 by architect Konstantin Melnikov, who originally designed it as a tubular steel structure. Steel shortages during this period forced changes to the design, resulting in the masonry construction you see today.

The name comes from the Russian word for freedom. Inside, you can feel how the space was built for workers to gather together, reflecting the Soviet belief that people needed shared places to spend time collectively.

The club stands at 41A Vyatskaya Street in the Savyolovsky District. Melnikov planned four ramps to the second floor, two from the street and two from the park, but they were replaced by stairs during construction and the park-side ones were never built. The main hall is an elongated elliptical tube split by a lowering wall into cinema and theatre halves.

Melnikov's first design was a flat elliptical tube lifted on pilotis, but steel rationing in the USSR blocked it and only the main span girders could be steel. The hall itself was built as an elongated elliptical-section tank, split in half by a lowering wall into a cinema and a theatre with a fully equipped stage.