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In 1924 Sebald Rutger's son Jan studied civil engineering in Zurich. He did an apprenticeship in Kemerovo. He started out helping a brigade of Russian carpenters to build log cabins. In 1926 Ir. van Loghem came with more modern ideas.

Jan Rutgers interviewed by Rongwrong: it was rather disappointing for Van Loghem that there was so little interest for his beautiful architectural ideas. To be honest, nobody cared a bit. He built a row of houses. Very nice modern Dutch houses at that. It was a terrace of about ten one-family-houses.

The Russians thought it was awful. They called them 'Kolbassa'. That means sausage. They thought it insane. There was so much space in Russia. Why build houses together? It could only mean trouble. If one had vermin, the whole sausage suffered. It was terrible. They didn¹t want to move in at all.
jan rutgers in 1996

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