Rusakov Workers' Club

The building features three large cantilevered auditorium sections protruding from the main facade, forming a distinctive gear-shaped structure in red brick and gray plaster.

Architect Konstantin Melnikov completed this workers club in 1929 during Soviet Russia's cultural revolution to provide educational and recreational facilities for municipal workers.

The theater incorporates transformable spaces with movable partition walls, allowing the main auditorium to accommodate between 250 and 1,300 spectators for different performances.

Located at 6 Stromynka Street, the building now serves as the permanent venue for the Roman Viktyuk Theater company, following extensive restoration work completed in 2015.

The revolutionary engineering design features concrete tribunes weighing over four tons each, which could be mechanically separated or combined using an electric motor system.

Location: Sokolniki District

Inception: 1927

Architects: Konstantin Melnikov

Official opening: 1928

Architectural style: constructivist architecture, avant-garde, constructivism

GPS coordinates: 55.79139,37.68722

Latest update: May 13, 2025 16:14