This Soviet architect believed that people would live in flying cities in the future! (PICS)

According to his idea, communal cities should emerge: a production center with factories would remain on the ground, while high-rise residential buildings would be located above.

Krutikov developed several variants. In one, eight residential buildings were united by a lower ring, which housed public spaces.

Another was a cylindrical building with hotel-type housing and an elevator shaft in the center. 

Krutikov thought through not only the external appearance of the houses of the future. For example, he thought that people would get to work in a special transforming capsule. The transport of the future, thanks to its plastic shell, could change shape, move both in the air and on the ground and even under water. And, if necessary, such a capsule could be transformed… into housing! What a capsule hotel!

The Soviet architect was not a dreamer, but rather a visionary. He was inspired, among other things, by the ideas of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founder of cosmonautics, and corresponded with him.

Krutikov believed that his houses would be able to float above the ground thanks to atomic energy and individual capsules would be charged by them. At the same time, they had to be controlled with the help of influence on the magnetic field – it was enough to wave your hand.