Architectural Historian & Author

Dmytro Soloviov

Writing and walking the architecture of the Ukrainian Soviet era — its monuments, murals, and the people who built them.

Ukrainian Modernism Book a Tour

Book

Ukrainian Modernism book cover

Ukrainian
Modernism

A comprehensive survey of Ukrainian modernist architecture from the 1920s to the 1980s — the constructivist experiments, the Khrushchev-era mass housing, the monumental mosaics, and the brutalist civic buildings that defined the built environment of Soviet Ukraine.

The book documents structures across the country, many now under threat from war or demolition, and situates Ukrainian architecture within global modernist discourse rather than as a peripheral phenomenon of the Soviet periphery.

Publisher Fuel, London
Year 2025
Distribution Thames & Hudson / DAP
Thames & Hudson DAP (US) Fuel

About

Dmytro Soloviov standing in front of a Soviet mosaic

Architectural
Historian

Dmytro Soloviov is a Kyiv-based architectural historian, author, and PhD candidate at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (НАОМА). His research focuses on comparative Ukrainian and Mexican monumental art from 1920 to 1980 — tracing the transnational dialogues between the Soviet avant-garde and Latin American muralism that have been largely absent from Western art history.

He is the author of Ukrainian Modernism (Fuel, London, 2025), distributed through Thames & Hudson and DAP, and runs the Instagram platform @ukrainianmodernism (105K followers), dedicated to the documentation and critical reading of Ukrainian modernist architecture.

His guided tours of Kyiv bring together architectural analysis, Soviet history, and photographic practice into walks through the city's brutalist housing estates, civic monuments, and mosaic-covered public buildings. Clients have included diplomatic delegations from the EU, Australia, the Netherlands, and Italy.

Tours

Curated
Architecture
Tours

Private and small-group walking tours of Kyiv's modernist and late Soviet built environment. Each tour is a close reading of the city — its architecture, its politics, and the human stories embedded in concrete and mosaic. Led in English or Ukrainian, tailored to your interests and time.

01

Brutalism &
Late Soviet Kyiv

The civic buildings, housing complexes, and public spaces of the 1960s–80s. From the Palace of Ukraine to the residential mikrorayons on the left bank.

02

Soviet Mosaics
& Monumental Art

An itinerary built around Kyiv's surviving mosaic facades and monumental reliefs — the Soviet public art program that turned entire building surfaces into political canvases.

03

Constructivism
& the Avant-Garde

The 1920s–30s experiments in constructivist form — worker's clubs, administrative buildings, and the architectural ambitions of early Soviet Ukraine.

Tour schedules and availability — contact directly to arrange. Custom itineraries available for groups, researchers, and diplomatic delegations.
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Contact

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in Touch

For tour bookings, press and media inquiries, academic collaboration, or anything else — reach out directly.

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Email ukrainianmodernism@gmail.com → Instagram @ukrainianmodernism → Personal @dmytrosolovyov →