FORMATION OF FAVORABLE ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING ENVIRONMENT IN WEST SIBERIA CITIES THE 1950–60s

The paper describes the introduction of new planning techniques in West Siberia cities in the 1950–60s. An analysis of the documents show that the architectural reform initiated a collision between two housing approaches, the universal and regional. The economy of construction was in the first place for central authorities. They counted on the potential of new housing industry and the overall implementation of existed methods of open planning from the foreign experience. The Soviet architects tried to prove the unacceptability of that approach. In West Siberia, new engineering solutions did not eliminate adverse climatic factors, but sharpened and complicated their impact. The reform resulted in the difference between engineering and scientific works. As a result, in the 1930–50s architects returned to closed planning, archival documents are used in this study.