Exhibitions at the L52 creative cluster

About exhibition

The L52 creative cluster, located in the "Gostyazhpromural" building—a striking symbol of constructivism in Yekaterinburg—houses exhibitions on the city's history in the 20th century. The building was constructed in 1933 to designs by architect Valentin Korotkov as part of the Gospromural housing and communal complex. The Gospromural houses are one of the first examples of row development in Sverdlovsk, where the residential blocks are positioned with their gable ends, rather than their façades, facing the central street. Over the years, members of the city's elite lived in the residential complex: scientists (S. Chirkov, N. Demenev, M. Chebukov, R. Dantzing, K. Strelkov), Bolshevik revolutionaries (A. Paramonov and Ya. Yurovsky), the director of the Sverdlovsk film studio D. Vorobyov, and pianist N. Kutepova. The building became the largest communal house in the USSR. For a long time it housed the city polyclinic; now it is a cultural space hosting lectures, performances, and exhibitions.