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Urban design of the residential complex “Third March“: a street with an entrance-exit function and the adjacent square, a secondary city centre.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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“3 March” Boulevard (former “9 September” Boulevard)

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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The blocks of flats along the “Third March” Boulevard are characterised by “socialist classicism” imposed by the Soviet Union.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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Residential houses: four-storeyed, monolithic houses with pitched roofs.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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The residential complex “Third March” provided modern housing for a large number of workers and their families.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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Yesterday’s poor farmers became residents of the new socialist town.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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The square provided for a secondary city centre.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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The hostel of the chemical plant and the Trade Union House of Culture built in 1961, devoid of neoclassical decorations.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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A sculpture on top of the Trade Union House of Culture displays a worker and a peasant woman.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

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The building dominates the square, taking over the symbolic function of the church as the new sacred place for the proletarian upbringing.

Photo: Municipality of Dimitrovgrad Archive

Residential complex “Third March”

Modern housing for the masses

The urban design of the residential complex “Third March” combines a street with an important entrance and exit function and the adjacent square – a secondary city centre with a powerful architectural image.

Hygenic living conditions for the workers

According to modernist ideas in urban design, standardised houses were constructed amidst green zones. The residential complex “Third March” provided hygienic living conditions for a large number of workers and their families. Yesterday’s poor farmers became residents of the new socialist town. The blocks of flats along the “Third March” Boulevard are characterised by “socialist classicism” imposed by the Soviet Union: four-storeyed, monolithic houses with pitched roofs, some of them with shops on the ground floor.

Proletarian upbringing and propaganda

Devoid of decorations in neoclassical style are the two main buildings of the square, built later on, in 1961: the hostel of the chemical plant and the former Trade Union House of Culture “Himik”. The latter one dominates the square with a huge sculpture on top of it, displaying a worker and a peasant woman. This new type of building was taking over the symbolic function of the church as the new sacred place for the proletarian upbringing – a clear act of propaganda.