I'm really not fond of much of this sort of design.
So many objects from the 60s and 70s were too focused on looking “cool”. The furniture strikes me as impractical and inhumane, and most of it was poor quality; I've seen a lot of it thrown out, and it just gets ratty and the laminates peel off if the climate control wasn't just right in whatever building it was in.
The organization of controls is alright, and the SCADA-style visual HMI definitely looks intriguing, but I wouldn't say it's “beautiful” in any way I would recognize; and it's not really any different from the design language of similar-period U.S. control rooms (see examples below).
You'll even note in my third example one of the images in the article isn't even of a soviet control room but rather a U.S. nuclear ship control room.
This error seems to stem from this article being from a family of slapdash articles based on a webpage with a collection of control room photos [0] claimed to be Soviet; though they they note several corrections, the U.S. ship control room is still there, right at the top, taunting you.
The organization of controls is alright, and the SCADA-style visual HMI definitely looks intriguing, but I wouldn't say it's “beautiful” in any way I would recognize; and it's not really any different from the design language of similar-period U.S. control rooms (see examples below).
You'll even note in my third example one of the images in the article isn't even of a soviet control room but rather a U.S. nuclear ship control room.
This error seems to stem from this article being from a family of slapdash articles based on a webpage with a collection of control room photos [0] claimed to be Soviet; though they they note several corrections, the U.S. ship control room is still there, right at the top, taunting you.
https://www.atomicheritage.org/sites/default/files/Three%20M...
https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/28/3200x2...
https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/28/3200x2...
[0]: http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2