Barracks as the Main Type of Mass Housing in the Soviet Industrial Towns Constructed During the First Five-Year Plans Authors Mark Meerovich RAACS; IAAM; INRTU http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3530-7558 Elena Bulgakova RAACS; Moscow Information and Technological University – Moscow Architecture and Construction Institute Downloads PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.60.1478 Published 2019-06-16 Issue No. 60 (2019): in good health Section Articles How to Cite Barracks as the Main Type of Mass Housing in the Soviet Industrial Towns Constructed During the First Five-Year Plans. (2019). Project Baikal, 16(60), 76-89. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.60.1478 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: barracks; Sotsgorod; industrialization; Soviet policy of urbanization Abstract In the period of Soviet industrialization (1920-1940s), Sotsgorod new developments were often erected from scratch – in steppe, taiga or the desert. Their workforce recruitment was impossible without large-scale housing. Barracks were the first truly mass housing to be built in Sozgorod new developments in the industrialization period. They were a mass phenomenon providing a roof for about 80-90% of the population of industrial settlements.