Grim! But once again you make a superb image, full of detail and meaning.

great compositon, colours and frame.. Excellent work my friend

I remember that they said that to us when we were there... a beautiful photo !

It looks a bit depressing to mee, but you got a fantastic and very clear photo.

Fantastic textures and tones. Excellent shot!

Great POV of delapidated building, is that a flower vase in the lower center window or a pigeon?

Excellent capture

Somewhat similar to the old Brownstone apartment buildings that were once common in New York City. Excellent example of a bygone era. Well done.

Very intersting shot of a different era. I like the brick of the building. I wonder why the windows were bricked up. I think the original long narrow windows must have been wonderful. I remember reading something about that experiment in socialism. It would have been nice had it worked. But the human and political equation always sets in ...

This is a picture of the stark reality, and an absolutely good capture of that mood... Fantastically sharp details, it speaks volumes - without saying too much! Superb effort, BB p.s. I love how you framed it with that torn & ripped look.

great multi-layered image

Now that I'm photographing, I'm trying to capture the language of architecture; and, like most beginners, I was drawn at first to the outward language of buildings & their shapes, etc. I'm just beginning to find the kind of inner language you've been capturing for years. This is a prime example of it. We read about these structures, in the study of communal housing in the Soviet Union, etc. But your capture is remarkably both drab & lifeless, and very vital & scintillating. Part of it is in your contrasts of light & dark, in the detail in the grouting between the bricks (you've brought them out in your capture vividly), in the attention to irregularity---where the bricks are irregular, where there are lighter rather than darker bricks, etc---and in the monolithic quality of the wall right alongside its great variety. You're one of a handful of photographers who captures these kinds of contrasts in one shot. And your sky---a sepia gray---feels silken compared to the highly granulated wall. And your framing---I don't know what it is, but it's like the old dark edges from darkroom prints, only you've etched a number out of the bricks behind the black, maybe a street number, maybe the inventory of the building when it was built, or maybe a date---2010 is there, it could be a date. It's ingenious, Nikolay. I think one of your essences is "presence": Many fine photographers will capture 'some' power in these walls: But you capture electricity even in the midst of a kind of numbness, and it's indelibly alive. I'm happy I took up photography if just to understand your subtleties better. A fine urban shot, and now (you can bet on this!) I'll be looking at walls much more closely. (Don't know if my camera will do it for me, but I'll sure do what I can to make it!) A very fine shot.