Giant Houses on Lenin Avenue

Seven-storey houses on Lenin Avenue, located at numbers 65 and 78, belong to the objects of cultural heritage of regional significance. In the 30s, the center of Murmansk continued to be built up with multi-apartment monumental houses. On Stalin Avenue, as the southern segment of the current Lenin Avenue was then called, by 1939, two twin houses had grown up facing each other for workers of the shipyard (now house No. 65) and the fish factory (now house No. 78).

These buildings turned out to be so large, with more than 100 apartments in each, that the local newspaper called them "Giant Houses". The author of the project was the Leningrad architect V.M. Olenev, who received a good architectural education from the St. Petersburg architects of the pre-revolutionary school. Residential "Giant Houses" are built in the style of Stalinist neoclassicism.

After listening to P.V. Fedorov's podcast "Architectural walks in Murmansk", you will find out who and when designed these houses, which, thanks to their fashionable appearance, could decorate even a metropolitan street.