Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin, alternatively transliterated as Miliutin (Russian: Николай Александрович Милютин, 21 December [O.S.

Milyutin is, however, remembered as an urban planner and an amateur architect, author of Sotsgorod concept, and as the editor of Sovetskaya arkhitektura magazine in 1931–1934.

[1] Milyutin was born in Saint Petersburg; his grandfather was a port stevedore, his father a fisherman and fishmonger of noble origins who also attempted to return to farming and work in the port; after Nikolay's birth he was injured at work and lived the remainder of his life on a disability pension, then already in place in Russian Empire.

[2] Around 1904 he made contacts with Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; he took part in the Bloody Sunday rally of 22 January [O.S.

[2] Milyutin looked for a training in architecture but lacked the secondary education required by established state colleges.

[2] After the beginning of World War I the government shut down the unions and crushed Bolshevik local cells; Milyutin was illegally engaged in restoring the network.

[3] According to Milyutin's own writing, on this night his detachments launched a frontal assault from the Arch of General Staff onto the barricades set by the loyalists around the Alexander Column, and was the first to cross this line.

[1] In the second half of 1930s Milyutin gradually stepped aside from executive duties; he continued writing his General Theory of Architecture and lectured at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.

Windows, in line with the cliche of constructivist architecture, were arranged in continuous strips running most of the building's length; Milyutin also proposed completely glazed facades but these were too costly at the time.