Rabochiy Dom i Rabochiy Poselok-Sad. [Workers' House and Workers' Garden-Settlement].: Series Rabochaya biblioteka. A Seriya 2. № III-1.

Moskva, Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheckoe izdatel'stvo, 1922.
Limited to 5 000 copies.

The original essay by prominent architect Grigori Barkhin (1880-1969). He started from classics buildings in Irkutsk and Moscow, but well-known by his avant-garde works in 1920s, mostly for his Izvestia Headquarters project (1926), a modern office building for the official newspaper of the Soviet government. During the Great War and the Civil War building construction had virtually collapsed. At once the newborn country faced with the problem of overpopulation and low quality housing for workers. It was unacceptable to live in such facilities for new ruling class. So, in the propaganda of the early 1920s garden city movement was used as one of the symbols of the bright Communist future. The book is divided into four parts: technical and sanitary housing standards, building materials and supplies, workers' house types, city garden and garden suburbs. Soviet architects were invited to use foreign attempts, such as construction with concrete and cement blocks (as well as panel building, framing construction, stucco). Furthermore, the author offered townhouses concept for the Soviet workers (single, double, dormitory). The monograph contains projects by the following architects: E. Fahrenkamp, H. Mann and P. R. MacNeille, A. and J. Soutar, G. Metzendorf, W. Ballinger and E. G. Perrot (the Ballinger Company), E. Kupffer (Riga), E. Laube, and many others. In the last part about city gardens describes such projects as: Letchworth Garden City, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Bournville and Port Sunlight, Brentham and New Earswick Garden Suburb, Hellerau, Bridgeport (by Marcia Mead). In the end author mentioned several Russian programs: Russia's first Garden City of Prozorovka (now Kratovo, 40 km. from Moscow), designed for the employees of the Moscow-Kazan railway, Kaiserwald (Tsar's forest now called Mezaparks) in the north of Riga and Kizel settlement (Gubakha, Perm Krai). 'However, by the late 1920s, the attitude of the Soviet government to Howard's' ideas had changed: they were now stigmatized as utopian and petty bourgeois. The Garden City model gave way to a new Soviet strategy of overall town planning and improvement' (The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850-2000, edited by Clark, P. London, New York: Routledge, 2006).

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