Derzhprom
Derzhprom is located in the center of a large eastern Ukrainian city – Kharkiv. This complex is a symbol of Ukrainian industrial capacity, and its name stands for the State Industry Building.
This building was constructed almost a hundred years ago as an embodiment of new architectural ideals and technological progress. Derzhprom is an outstanding example of constructivism, an architectural style abstaining from decoration and emphasizing the building's functionality. Hence its massiveness and certain severity in shapes.
Derzhprom cannot help but impress – nine entrances with aerial passageways. The building's height including the TV tower is 108 meters. It is also massive inside – various Kharkiv and regional authorities and institutions are located here.
More than 1,000 freight cars of concrete, almost 4,000 freight cars of granite, and 40,000 square meters of glass were used to build this concrete leviathan. That said, it was built almost by hand – a pit of 20,000 cubic meters was dug by thousands of people with shovels, who worked in three shifts. The dirt was then transported outside the city on carts – there were only 14 trucks available on the entire site.
The construction process was so large-scale that up to 5,000 people often worked at the site simultaneously, sometimes even up to 15,000. Finally, the efforts of these thousands of Ukrainians resulted in what was later called “the plant transformed into a palace” in the center of Kharkiv.
Yuliia Vlaskina
Yuliia Vlaskina is a Ukrainian-born electronic musician, based in Berlin. She records and performs her music mostly under super inter alias, and occasionally collaborates with other musicians, film makers, theatre, radio, and researchers as a composer, sound designer and sound engineer.
Driven by minimalist and microsound aesthetics, in her music she explores composition and constructs introspective sonic spaces with their own time.