In the exposition of the Severodvinsk Museum, you can see a model of a house of series 1335. This is the first large-panel house in the Arkhangelsk region, it was built at 67 Tortsev Street in 1960.
The houses of this series were nicknamed by the people ‘Khrushchyovka’. They had small apartments with small kitchens, a combined bathroom and walk-through rooms. The ceilings in the apartments barely reached 2.5 meters. The facades of the houses were made very simple, the panels were painted on the outside. After the 1955 Ordinance ‘On the elimination of excesses in design and construction’, all large-scale construction projects were curtailed and the houses responded to the trends of the times.
In the summer of 1959, construction of the house began, it was preceded by the commissioning of a house-building workshop, which produced the first prefabricated parts in August. Such panel houses were erected from more than a thousand parts: panels, flights of stairs, ceilings, balconies. Guided by the slogan: ‘Floor per week, house per month.’ However, this 80-apartment building was built with delays. It was assembled in three months at the end of February 1960, and then finishing work continued. The house was rented out for the May Day - on the same day new settlers began to move in. It was a big event for the city, so a report appeared on the pages of the city newspaper. It wrote: ‘A new house, how much happiness there will be in it’: on the days before May, trucks were hurrying to the end of Severnaya Street, to house number 67, which the builders called building number 7/66. The house was filled with cheerful voices. Tables, chairs, beds, sofas were carried along the stairs in a continuous stream. Someone from the resourceful residents of the 1st floor lifted the chest of drawers right out the wide window, carefully covering the window sill with an old blanket. And, like any useful thing, this example was immediately taken up by others. There was laughter and joking remarks. Let the builders make more of these houses, let there be more new settlements! “
The housing issue in the city remained one of the most acute, and after this building began the massive construction of small apartments. This allowed the residents of Severodvinsk to receive apartments in a shorter time frame.
The houses of this series were nicknamed by the people ‘Khrushchyovka’. They had small apartments with small kitchens, a combined bathroom and walk-through rooms. The ceilings in the apartments barely reached 2.5 meters. The facades of the houses were made very simple, the panels were painted on the outside. After the 1955 Ordinance ‘On the elimination of excesses in design and construction’, all large-scale construction projects were curtailed and the houses responded to the trends of the times.
In the summer of 1959, construction of the house began, it was preceded by the commissioning of a house-building workshop, which produced the first prefabricated parts in August. Such panel houses were erected from more than a thousand parts: panels, flights of stairs, ceilings, balconies. Guided by the slogan: ‘Floor per week, house per month.’ However, this 80-apartment building was built with delays. It was assembled in three months at the end of February 1960, and then finishing work continued. The house was rented out for the May Day - on the same day new settlers began to move in. It was a big event for the city, so a report appeared on the pages of the city newspaper. It wrote: ‘A new house, how much happiness there will be in it’: on the days before May, trucks were hurrying to the end of Severnaya Street, to house number 67, which the builders called building number 7/66. The house was filled with cheerful voices. Tables, chairs, beds, sofas were carried along the stairs in a continuous stream. Someone from the resourceful residents of the 1st floor lifted the chest of drawers right out the wide window, carefully covering the window sill with an old blanket. And, like any useful thing, this example was immediately taken up by others. There was laughter and joking remarks. Let the builders make more of these houses, let there be more new settlements! “
The housing issue in the city remained one of the most acute, and after this building began the massive construction of small apartments. This allowed the residents of Severodvinsk to receive apartments in a shorter time frame.
