In pictures: Frédéric Chaubin's subversive Soviet superstructures

Druzhba Holiday Centre (Yalta, Ukraine, built 1984) Photograph: Krause, Johansen/Frédéric Chaubin

The Georgian Ministry of Highway Construction (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The architecture faculty at Minsk polytechnic, with a succession of overhanging lecture theatres (Minsk, Belarus, 1983) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Armenian president's private holiday home on Lake Sevan Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Palace of Ceremonies (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Soviet embassy in Cuba (Havana, 1985) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

A monument to the 1918 Battle of Bash Aparan, at which the Armenians repelled a force of Ottoman soldiers (Aparan, Armenia, built 1979) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Central Research and Design Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (St Petersburg, Russia, 1987) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development (Kiev, Ukraine, 1971) Photograph: Johansen Krause

Kiev crematorium, adorned with concrete flames (Ukraine, 1985) Photograph: Johansen Krause

The anthropomorphic House of Soviets in Kaliningrad, Russia, on the site of the Saxon castle of Königsberg. Begun in 1974, its construction was never completed because of its structural flaws and the collapse of the USSR Photograph: Johansen Krause

A 32m-high Holocaust memorial constructed on the site of the Ninth Fort at Kaunas (Lithuania, 1983) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

The Zurab Tsereteli-designed coloured ceramic children's pool at the Adlersky health resort on the Black Sea coast (Sochi, Russia, 1973) Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin