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When the Dutch architect Van Loghem arrived in Kemerovo he found himself a village built without plan and consisting entirely of disparate components: a few neglected military barracks, log cabins plundered from another mining village and cave dwelling where people lived "like moles underground".
shop in the 1930s

He immediately set to work: designing a city plan while striding around the area in long boots. He split the town design in two: on the left bank of the river Tom he sited the "citadel of labour", on the right bank the mining town was to be constructed.

print: "control p"