In the middle of the 20th century, as industrialization boomed and the auto industry grew, garages started popping up across the USSR. Over time, many of these garages were converted away from their original purpose of housing cars. Istanbul-based photographer Oksana Ozgur visited these garages and documented their unique interiors.
From the outside, most of these spaces still look like ordinary car garages.
But the insides are a different story.
A garage converted into a bar and home theater. On the ground floor there is another lounge. There is no car in this garage anymore.Garage of an artist decorator. Everything is made by himself. The room on the ground floor will also have new functionalityThe garage is meeting place of a local motorcycle club. In addition to storing equipment, there is a place for recreation for club membersA place for amateur musicians’ rehearsals. Located on the second floor of the garage. There is also a relaxation area with fireplace and bar. A bath is going to be built. Cars are stored on the first floor.Recreation area for meeting friends. In garage (common area of about 50 square meters) part of the territory is fenced off and converted into a roomLounge with a pool table in a three-story garage. In addition to storage area for the car, there are a bathhouse, kitchen, and bedroom. There are plans to make an exit to the roof.Standard garage of 5 by 6 meters with a place for restThe garage has been converted into a recording studio. Upstairs is a place to store a car. On the ground floor is a studioBedroom in a three-story garageStandard garage is converted in rehearsal area for a local rock bandResting room in three-story garage. 5 by 12 meters. There are also a bath and two floors for storing carsSport room in a two-story garageResting room with a fireplace and bathroom on the ground floor. Upstairs there is a place for car
“Dynamic development of North in the 1970s was accompanied by an increasing number of localities,” Ozgur says. “Garages were an integral part of urban planning. Lack of entertainment in very young northern towns and villages prompted local people to look for another means of recreation.
“At first only a small part of the garage area was separated for leisure. But today garage’s storage function is either put on the back or totally replaced by non-typical ways of using garage’s territory.”
Lounge zone on the ground floorPrinting office of local newspaper is located in two one-story garagesA creative person’s garageRecreation area on the ground floor with a furnace and bar counter. Upstairs there is a place for carRecreation area in typical garage 5 by 6 metersThe standard garage is converted into a dovecote. On the ground floor there is a quarantine zone for birds, on a handmade second floor there are birdhouses. There is also access to the roofRelaxation zone on the second floor. Downstairs there is a place for carResting place with a fireplace and Siberian hills view, placed on the second floorWorking place of a chairman of garage cooperative. Located on the second floor of three-story garage of common square 180 square meters
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