The Strange Story of The First Soviet Skyscraper

In 1925, the Soviet Union held an open competition to design a building that had never existed before — to be built by hand, in an empty field, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine. What they built became the first skyscraper in the Soviet Union. This is the strange story of Derzhprom. Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Why was Derzhprom needed? 01:35 What were the proposed designs? 02:46 How was it built? 06:02 How did it look like completed? 07:32 What happened to the other skyscrapers? Primary sources: For Skrypnyk: Book: Валерій Солдатенко - Незламний. Життя і смерть Миколи Скрипника (Valeriy Soldatenko - Unbreakable. Life and death of Mykola Skrypnyk) For Derzhprom: Book: Звоницкий Э.М., Лейбфрейд А.Ю. - ГОСПРОМ (E.M. Zvonitsky, A.Yu. Leybfreyd - GOSPROM) No generative AI was used in this video. 3D animations were made in Blender, edited in DaVinci Resolve. For business inquiries: [email protected] #derzhprom #sovietarchitecture #kharkiv