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Resist erasure. Capture the legacy of a vanished era.

Every year, thousands of fragments of an entire civilisation disappear.

Imagine losing 15% of your country's cultural heritage annually. The entire Renaissance would disappear in a century. This is what's happening to socialist-era monumental art. Perhaps half has already vanished since the collapse of the Soviet Union — destroyed for ideological reasons, cleared for development, or simply left to decay.

This is insanity.

Yet monumental memorials still loom over Eastern European squares, cosmic structures rise across the Caucasus, and fading mosaics continue to colour cities in Central Asia. Dismissed as ideology made concrete, these works reveal something more: artists who smuggled beauty into a system that demanded obedience. But as redevelopment and neglect accelerate, they too risk being lost forever.

This archive exists for one reason: to document and preserve the world's most endangered art before it vanishes completely.

345works documented
159Architecture
89Art
97Urban Forms
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