Expert opinions

No city in the world possesses such a spectacular example of Modernist housing as the Narkomfin.

Although today Narkomfin is unprepossessing and even frightening in appearance, a broad avenue leads to it, beaten by people who understand its significance.

From Joerg Haspel, Head of the Department for Heritage Conservation in Berlin. Founder Member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for 20th Century Heritage

In 1972 UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) passed the World Heritage Convention, defining the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.

The Narkomfin-Building is a Heritage Site of outstanding European value. The Constructivist Narkomfin housing group in Moscow represents a key monument in Russian Avant-garde architecture.

It is of great importance that the restoration of the Narkomfin Building be of the highest possible quality…

Narkomfin is one of the most significant modernist buildings in Europe…

The NARKOMFIN house is a key achievement of the Russian avant-garde.