The Soviet Socialist city (Sotsgorod) can be identified by its unique structure and form. Typically, this recognition is characterised by the rigid built order, the Mikrorayon and the Soviet mass housing block. Yet, by investigating the Sotsgorod another very specific form can be detected. It sits in the city as a foreign matter, an object alien to its rigid surroundings. It was neither designed, nor explicitly planned by the Socialist state, yet it can be found in 48 of the 50 largest cities within the former Soviet
Union. These multiple findings are large scale complexes of garages. The Socialist garage has a generic micro-city quality and within that, it consists of three main properties. It embodies an architectural element on a plot; it is initially constructed for a ‘thing’ of consumption, the car, and it assembles into odd micro-city formations adducing a capitalist character resulting in a diverse form of
dwellings within the Sotsgorod.