We are publishing a new story by Kirill Alexandrov. There was always a baby stroller in front of my neighbors' door in the stairwell. Black, small, fairly simple design. Having lived in this house for more than six months, I stopped being surprised that whenever I was in the entrance, it was always there - as if no one lived in the apartment opposite, and the stroller had simply been forgotten.

About the glorious Soviet architectural past from the book “Arthur Tarkhanyan, Spartak Khachikyan, Hrachya Poghosyan” . In 1971–1972, two rounds of the competition were held for the design of the Zvartnots air terminal building in Yerevan. Two options, presented by A. Tarkhanyan, S. Khachikyan, Zh. Shekhlyan and L. Cherkezyan, were designed in the form of elongated volumes according to the so-called “linear” scheme (such an airport was built in 1980 in Tallinn). Zvartnots was also built in 1980.

An article by Vlad Gagin about the neurotic figure of the new poor, the poems of Pyotr Razumov and complex relationships with one’s own desires. “ Hide your balaclava in your pocket and don’t step on Sobyanin’s tiles, carry a knife and a corkscrew with you - these are simple rules " group "Waste paper" They say the term “new poor” appeared as a response to the term “new rich”.

City ruins are the death of the city, its corpse. But this is a “fruitful death.” Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Loss The ruins of modern Russian abandoned cities are nothing more than the ruins of residential buildings of standard series, which were built in great numbers in the Soviet Union, starting from the late 50s, and which are the matrix of the architectural appearance of the residential areas of any city in Russia and Eastern Europe.

...for he talked long nights with the chief priest - the most free-thinking of metaphysicians who ever "split one hair into seventy layers" (R. Kipling) When I first started doing this project, there was a temptation to call it metaphysics. After all, what is metaphysics, literally? This is what lies beyond physics, literally from Greek: “beyond physics”, or “after physics”. This is more than physics. Historically, the concept of metaphysics comes from Aristotle.