Soviet Control Rooms: Vintage Beauty
- Control rooms are a key part of industrial operations
- The Soviet Union built many control rooms with unique designs
- These rooms are still fascinating today
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Introduction to Control Rooms
Control rooms are used to monitor and manage industrial processes. They often have many buttons, screens, and other devices.
Design and Layout
The design of control rooms has changed over time.
Having worked on SCADA software in the past, I find the evolution of the control room UX fascinating. You can see in these pictures, where every input and output is a real physical thing, just how much density of information was required for Operators to process.
Older control rooms had many physical devices. Newer control rooms use computer screens to display information.
Examples and Comparisons
Control rooms are not unique to the Soviet Union.
It’s not specific to the Soviet world, any control room built before computers looks like that.
Other countries also built control rooms with similar designs. For example, nuclear power plants in France have control rooms with many buttons and screens.
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