Sotsmisto, or Sixth Settlement is a residential neighborhood built in 1930's in Zaporizhzhia. The ensemble is built in interwar modernist and constructivist style.[1] This neighborhood is an outstanding example of a functional part of a modern industrial city that reflects values of early Ukrainian SSR.
The construction of Sotsmisto of Zaporizhzhia was experimental, just like constructivism as a style in the 1920s and 1930s.[2] The constructions reflect the romanticization of socialist ideas of early USSR. For example, the architecture incorporates art that is not characteristic of social realism (the style that gained popularity after constructivism).[3]
Most examples of constructivist architecture are found in the neighborhood known as Sixth Settlement. The construction of Sotsmisto started with the Building of Culture of Metallurgists, but DniproHES is considered the heart of industrial Zaporizhzhia. This is because the neighborhood was built primarily to house workers of DniproHES. The area was planned to embody the ideals of a Soviet proletariat.
Sotsmisto is located under a protected zone in Zaporizhzhia together with the city centre.[4] Attempts have been made to inscribe the Sotsmisto and DniproHES on the tentative World Heritage list.