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.

The school of the Kemerovo Mine was built by J. B. Van Loghem in 1926 – 1927 and still remains one-of-a-kind.

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