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Totma: Tip. Totemskogo Otdela Mestnogo Khoziaistva, 1924. [4], 20 pp., 8 ills. Original illustrated front wrapper preserved. No back cover, some foxing. One of 600 copies produced. Very rare provincial print. First issue of a series "Reports of Scientific Society for Research of the Region of the Totma Museum called after A.V. Lunacharsky". This book on architecture of the Vologda province was written by Dmitry Osipov (1887-1934). He was a member of the Association of Urbanist Architects headed by N. Ladovsky. In 1918, Osipov won a competition on designing a Monument of the Soviet Constitution. Being a central structure in Lenin's Plan of Monumental Propaganda, it was located on Tverskaya square in 1918-1941. He also co-designed with L. Vesnin the village of Kizelovskaya power plant in 1921. Together with A. Rukhliadev, he released some technical publications. This book was aimed to inherit useful principles of North construction in contemporary wooden buildings. The edition comprises 8 full-page… Read More