Rostov-on-Don has long served as one of the most vital industrial centres and transport hubs of the Russian South. The city boasts a rich architectural legacy in keeping with this status, including numerous examples of the Imperial, Russian Revivalist, Eclectic, Modernist, and Neoclassical styles. Most engaging of all are the city’s Constructivist monuments, among which the Maxim Gorky Drama Theatre stands out as a key symbol of both the movement and the city which gave birth to it. The theatre, designed around the form of a Soviet tractor, is a powerful manifestation of the 20th-century avant-garde, and is widely considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the Constructivist style, hailed as the jewel in the crown of Soviet architecture by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer.
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