{"id":736005,"date":"2026-06-28T13:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:25:19","slug":"the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e07c23de96\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e07c23de96\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/#SHARE\" >SHARE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" style=\"max-width:1050px;\">\n                        <input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633027\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Soviet Union had a complicated relationship with spectacle. Everything about Soviet ideology pointed toward collective purpose, practical function, and the rejection of excess. And then they went and built circus arenas shaped like flying saucers, out of raw concrete, in capital cities across Central Asia and Eastern Europe. If that is not a contradiction worth paying attention to, I do not know what is.<\/p>\n<p>Cirk, a new book from David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka of Zupagrafika, makes that contradiction its entire subject. The Pozna\u0144-based design duo have spent over a decade documenting the brutalist and modernist architecture of the former Eastern Bloc, and Cirk is their latest, most playful entry in that ongoing project. The book surveys the permanent circus arenas built across the former USSR from the 1960s through the 1980s, buildings that, as Zupagrafika puts it, combined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist modernism, experimental engineering, and choreographed spectacle.\u201d It is an architectural typology most people have never thought about, and yet once you see these buildings, you cannot stop looking.<\/p>\n<p>Designers: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zupagrafika.com\/shop\/cirk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633028\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633028\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"30be51058eb01ef6d25d7883-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ad-1 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"30be51058eb01ef6d25d7883-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the part of Cirk that has people talking is not the photography, gorgeous as it is. It is the second half of the book: five press-out paper models of actual circus buildings, designed for readers to punch out and assemble with nothing but glue. The five models represent the Kyrgyz State Circus in Bishkek, the Chi\u0219in\u0103u State Circus in Moldova, the Dnipro State Circus in Ukraine, the Great Moscow State Circus, and the Tashkent State Circus in Uzbekistan. Five buildings. Five cities. Five strikingly different pieces of architecture, each one reduced to a miniature you can hold in your hands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633029\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633029\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I have a genuine soft spot for paper models, and I think their reputation as a \u201cchildren\u2019s activity\u201d has always undersold what they actually are. A well-designed paper model is an act of translation. Someone has to study a real building, understand its geometry from every angle, figure out how to collapse it into a flat sheet, and do it in a way that holds together when you fold it back up. That is not trivial when the buildings in question are full of curves, cantilevers, and circular geometry. The circus arenas in Cirk are not simple boxes. Many have sweeping domed roofs and wide cylindrical bases, and the kind of sculptural confidence that makes them look like props from a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction film. Getting that geometry to behave on paper requires real design skill, and Zupagrafika clearly has it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633030\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633030\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"30be51058eb01ef6d25d7883-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ads-2 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"30be51058eb01ef6d25d7883-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633031\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633031\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The studio has been producing paper model kits alongside their books for years, so this is familiar territory. But tucking five models into the back of a hardcover book feels like a deliberate choice, not an afterthought. The models are not a gimmick. They are an argument. You can look at photographs of the Great Moscow State Circus for a long time, and it will remain something abstract and distant. When you press out those perforated shapes and fold them into a miniature version of that building, something shifts. The scale changes. The building becomes tactile and personal. You start to understand its proportions in a way that a photograph simply cannot deliver.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633032\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633032\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>There is also something quietly political about the whole exercise. These arenas were built as monuments to Soviet power, intended to be overwhelming and permanent. Reducing one to a paper model is almost cheeky. It takes these grand gestures of ideological architecture and makes them domestic, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roachable, collectible. The Soviet state is long gone. Someone is now folding the Great Moscow State Circus on their kitchen table. History has a strange sense of humor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633033\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633033\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cirk is a hardcover running 88 pages, sized generously at 30 by 24 centimeters, giving the models room to breathe on the page. The first half carries photography and historical essays, with a foreword from writer Jelena Prokopljevi\u0107. It is a complete package: context, visual archive, and the hands-on satisfaction of making something. For anyone drawn to architecture, Cold War history, or just the very specific pleasure of a perforated page coming apart cleanly, Cirk is a book that earns its shelf space. The flying-saucer buildings are absolutely worth it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633034\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/cirk-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-633034\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/27\/the-soviet-union-built-ufo-shaped-circuses-now-you-can-fold-one\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. 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