Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin

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Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Personal information
Name Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Nationality Russian
Birth date April 9, 1882
Birth place Yuryevets
Date of death September 17, 1950
Place of death Moscow
Work
Practice name Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board
Significant buildings DnieproGES
Significant projects Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Russian:Виктор Александрович Веснин, 1882-1950), was a Russian Soviet architect. His early works (1909-1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in 1920's, he and his brothers Leonid (1880-1933) and Alexander (1883-1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the Vesnin brothers. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized [1] [2].

[edit] Selected Work

Mostorg department store, 1928
Mostorg department store, 1928
  • 1934 Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
  • 1927-1932 DnieproGES
  • 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow
  • 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
  • 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow
  • 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
  • 1922-23 Palace of Labor project
  • 1915 Sirotkin House, Nizhny Novgorod
  • 1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin) [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin at the archINFORM database
  2. ^ www.utopia.ru
  3. ^ Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133, ISBN 5-98051-011-7
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