Organizational and legal basis for the formation and implementation of housing policy in Moscow in 1953-1964

Skripkin Dmitry Dmitrievich

The article deals with topical aspects of one of the most significant periods in the history of the USSR, associated with the trends towards urbanization, urban planning of the thaw period, which made significant adjustments not only to the organizational and legal system of housing policy in Moscow in 1953-1964. The transition from the elite architecture of the "Stalinist Empire" to mass Soviet architecture is reflected in the period of the "Khrushchev thaw", which reflects not only the new prospects for the architectural appearance of Soviet cities, but also the socio-economic motives of political reforms taking place in the field of housing innovation. The considered legislative acts of the Soviet period, preceding and accompanying the implementation of a completely new system of housing urban development, are unique Chronicles of building the image of everyday life of Soviet citizens during the thaw. In historical analysis, the organizational and legal foundations of housing reforms laid by N. S. Khrushchev after coming to power are one of the important key factors in the formation of scientific and methodological trends in the architecture of the Soviet period.

Keywords:urban planning, housing construction, thaw, panel houses, Stalinist Empire.