Science in the USSR was highly esteemed and intensively supported by the government. Soviet research and development institutes formed a particular category of architecture. Their buildings were supposed to dominate the surroundings and provide the impression of progress and power.
Enormous R&D institutes with people moving inside glass and concrete structures could be imagined as microcities, and as the inevitable process of offline document exchange and meetings took much time, daily jogging might be a metaphor of an arcade game.
