New standard designs for houses for distant northern districts
have been elaborated in the Leningrad experimental design institute.
Photo at right shows a mock-up of a public centre for a building
workers town with a population of 100-200. Photo below is a pre-fab

mock-up for several persons.

The institute has also elaborated designs for cultural and public
service premises from fully-finished units-containers. The building is
set up on a base plate with the necessary adjusting mechanism. The
units-containers can be transported by rail.

By BEA FERNEYHOUGH

“Man and His Universe” the
theme of the USSR pavilion this
year at Montreal’s international
fair, Terre des Hommes (Man
and His World) celebrates the
50th anniversary of the found-
ing of the Union of Soviet So-
cialist Republics.

It does so in many a magni-
ficent display of 3,000 examples
of outstanding artistic and scien-
tific achievements of the Soviet
peoples, putting on view sam-
ples of the finest works of the
people of all 15 nationally dis-
tinct Soviet socialist republics.

It is a brilliant proof of the
success of the policy of the
right of national self-determina-
tion and socialist international
unity.

“This year’s pavilion,” said
director, Pavel A. Cherviakov,
at a pre-opening press confer-
ence in Montreal on July 17, “‘is
designed to strengthen Cana-
dian-Soviet cultural ties.”

“We believe that the partici-
pation of the USSR in Man and
His World, this year, is part of
the realization of the program
for expanding Canadian-Soviet
exchanges drawn up by Prime
Minister Trudeau on his visit to
the Soviet Union and our Pre-
sident of the Council of Minis-
ters, N. A. Kosygin, when he
was in Canada.”

Mr. Cherviakov, noted that
this is the fifth time that the
USSR has taken part in the
Montreal exposition since 1967.
“Tt is now a tradition with us,”
he said.

The site of the USSR display
this year is the former Scandi-
navian pavillion on Ile Ste-Hé-
léne. The greater part of the
pieces on display were chosen
and arranged by the Soviet Min-
istry of Culture, the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR, the
Moscow Municipal Council and
Novosti Press Agency. They
Ihave brought to Canada some
3,000 works of art, paintings,
sculptures, graphics, glassware,
and other creations of the most
renowned artists of the 15 con-
stituent Soviet republics, as well
as models of Sputnik, Luna 16,
and other illustrations of the
space research program and
urban development in the Soviet
Union.

At the ground level the visi-
tor is greeted by a gallery of
photographs recording the his-
tory, of Canadian-Soviet rela-
tions, including historic photos
going back to 1942 when diplo-
matic relations were first official-
ly established between Canada
and the USSR.

__ ‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1972—-PAGE &

On the first floor up, 15 huge,
illuminated color portraits of
young women wearing the na-
tional dress of their people, and
scenes of their national capitals
welcome the visitor to the 15
republics. Here information also
is available to the travel-minded
visitor, from Intourist and Aero-
flot.

The second floor is divided
into five sections, under the
theme of “50 years in the
USSR.” Here is offered a rapid
survey of the country as a
whole, a huge map of the vast
territory, a bust of Lenin, scenes
of the parliament in session,
photos of deputies from the
various republics, the science
section; models of urban deve-
lopments; the signed -works of
30 contemporary Soviet artists
—40 sculptures from the na-
tional museums of the 15 repub-
lics; the book section, stressing
International Book Year, with
displays books published in the
languages of all 15 republics.

The pavilion this year is dis-
tinctly different from all pre-
vious ones. It was conceived by
Rundolf R. Kliks, creator of
more than 100 such projects in-
cluding the noted USSR pavil-
ion for Expo ’67.

Films, concerts of classical
music as well as of works of
contemporary Soviet composers
also take place in the pavilion
theatre.

Under the heading, Soviet
Architecture in Canada, come
various plastic mock-ups. The
Lenin Memorial at Ulyanovsk
on the Volga, is the largest such
memorial in the world.

Its impressive Lenin Hall,
decorated with group sculptures,
panels of mosaic, and multi-
colored frescoes, is dedicated to
the October Revolution and the
achievements of the Soviet peo-
ple.

Soviet creators of dwellings
for the regions of the far north
have long understood the neces-
sity of combining under the
same roof, dwellings with cen-
tres for social and cultural ser-
vices.

The model dwelling-complex
unit on display at the USSR
pavilion the original is 100 times
the size of the model) is at pre-
sent under construction at West
Khantai, the city of hydro-élec-
tric construction workers, on
the Yenesei River (East Siberia).

This 222-room building, the
dream-product of Leningrad
architects, will house 620 peo-
ple and make available to them
all necessities of life. Without

leaving the complex, children .

‘Man and
His Universe’
in Montreal

AN
Mini
View
of 15
Soviet
Nations

can go to-school from creche
through kindergarten, junior
and secondary school.

They will have at their dis-
posal manual work shops, gar-
dens and orchards for botany
study and a sports field and

An astonishing revival of the
2,000 year-old art of Georgian
chased metal work is drawing
crowds at this year’s exhibit. Be-
tween the sixth and twelfth cen-
turies it expressed itself in mag-
nificent icons, gateways, jewelry

and bookbindings. Flourishing
again, everyone snaps it up to
decorate public buildings.

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swimming pool for lessons in
physical culture.

The re-design of Sverdlov
Square in Moscow (named after
the first president of Soviet
Russia) will further beautify
what has been called one of the

’ loveliest city areas in the world,

bounded by the Bolshoi and
Maly theatres, and the Moskva
and Metropol hotels.

Over one-and-one-half miles
long, Novo-Kirovski Avenue
(also on exhibit in mock-up at
the pavilion) will become part of
the main diameter axis of Mos-
cow: south-west — Kremlin —
north-east. Historical monu-
ments, buildings of interest, dat-
ing from before the revolution,
and of the Soviet period will
form a single, integrated spatial
composition. All street levels
will be occupied by shops, res-
taurants, cafes, art galleries, etc.
Moscow underground’ urban
development will be freely
applied in this design: tunnels
for pedestrians, a parking lot
underground, to accommodate
4,600 vehicles, and new open
green spaces, parks, squares will
be laced along the avenue.

The new department store
“Everything for the Home” is
composed of three centres: the
administration building, and
warehouse; the sales centre for
house furnishings, and the de-
partment, “everything for Con-
temporary Living.” Here, all
articles indispensable for home-
making will be available.

The science section of the
pavilion gives insight into the
vast progress of space research
now in full swing in the USSR.
It reveals the most important
and universally acclaimed work
of Soviet savants.

At the entrance is a full-scale
model of the first Earth satellite,
sent aloft by the USSR on Octo-
ber 4, 1957. The Soviet automa-
tic station Luna-16 also appears
in replica; it was launched on
September 12, 1970 and 12 days

later brought back to Earth
samples of lunar soil.
In August 1970, the inter-

planetary Venus-7 (a model of
which appears in the exhibit)
was sent up from USSR terri-
tory. After exploring the atmo-
sphere surrounding Venus; it
made a soft landing on that

planet and for 23 minutes,
transmitted information to
Earth.

Electronics communications

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lines of the most striking
achievements of Soviet men and
women of learning.

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