The Dutch architect J. B. Van Loghem built the first comfortable terraced houses for local coalminers in 1926 – 1927. The residents found the design so weird that the comfortable townhouses were immediately nicknamed "sausages", and the name stuck.

These elegant houses were built by the Dutch architect J. B. Van Loghem in 1926 – 1927. They were meant for engineers, or specialists, and their families.

The concrete bath house was built for Kemerovo miners in 1925 – 1926 and had a revolutionary design.