The printing house in Ekaterinburg

A striking example of the constructivist is building of the printing house "Ural worker" which was built in the 1930s by architect G. A. Golubev. Composition of the building is based on the unification of two different in length and features of the buildings with vertical semi-circular displacement of the staircase, allocated on the facade color. Cut from the bottom to the volume of the staircase is both a visor for emergency entrance on the first floor of the building. They built the printing house with innovative at the time of technology - reinforced concrete skeleton.

Printing house with the most recognizable elements of the constructivist style: long volume with a flat roof, ribbon windows, rounded the corner and support on a pillar, - from the very beginning was intended to house the printing and publishing house "Ural worker". Printing house "Ural worker" is the oldest printing house in the Urals, founded in 1926. Original publisher carried out the production of the largest in the Urals newspaper "Ural worker" and "Na smenu!". After the war the main products of "Ural worker", beside the Newspapers, were books. The printing press has installed the newest equipment for production of books in hard and soft cover, which throughout the country were few.

Nowadays "Ural worker" - a large media holding, the printing house is already on another site. Interesting fact that the Building of the printing house in 2010 became the main platform of the Ural industrial Biennale of contemporary art - a unique project, reinterpreted industrial space as a cultural object, integrating it into the sphere of art. Artists work on the existing and vacant industrial production in Ekaterinburg - a city on the border of Europe and Asia, between industrial and post-industrial economy.