Soviet Hollywood
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Soviet Hollywood was a massive film production city (Kinograd) project conceived for Laspi Bay in Crimea by Boris Shumyatsky, the head of the Soviet film industry, after his 1934 study tour of the United States. Modeled on Hollywood's division-of-labor and mass-production system and targeting an annual output of 200 films, the site was selected with Stalin's approval in July 1936 and foundations were laid that November, but the project collapsed in 1937 when the Council of People's Commissars refused to fund it. The failure of this ambitious vision contributed to the context in which Shumyatsky fell victim to the Great Purge the following year.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: Shumyatsky planned 'Soviet Hollywood' at Laspi Bay, Crimea after 1934 US trip; site selected July 1936; project defeated at Sovnarkom 1937; planned 200 films/year
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: Shumyatsky conceived a Hollywood-style center near Odessa in Crimea called Kinograd for year-round filmmaking
- cdclv.unlv.edu Oksana Bulgakova: Shumyatsky planned to increase production to 800 films/year and envisioned a kino-city in Crimea styled after Hollywood; project rejected as Shumyatsky was denounced as a saboteur