- Lev Rudnev
Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev ( _ru. Лев Владимирович Руднев; OldStyleDate|13 March|1885|1 March-
November 19 1956 ) was aRussia narchitect , and a leading practitioner ofStalinist architecture .Rudnev was born to the family of a school teacher in the town of
Opochka (other sources stateNovgorod ). He graduated from theRiga Realschule (now the Riga 1st State Grammar School) and entered theImperial Academy of Arts inSaint Petersburg (1906). At the Academy he studied painting underLeon Benois and architecture underIvan Fomin . From 1911 Rudnev was a success in various architectural competitions, and in 1915 he became a certified specialist in the art of architecture.After the
February Revolution Rudnev won the competition for the "Victims of the Revolution" monument on the Field of Mars in Petrograd (March 1917). The avant-garde monument there was built according to his design.After the end of the Great Patriotic War Lev Rudnev took active part in reconstructing the ruined cities of
Voronezh , Stalingrad,Riga andMoscow . In 1922-1948 Rudnev was a Professor of the Academy of Arts (former Imperial Academy of Arts) in Leningrad; in 1948-1952 he was a Professor at theMoscow Institute for Architecture (Moskovskij Arkhitekturny Institut). Rudnev was also a member ofSoviet Academy of Architecture .Rudnev’s most remarkable architectural work is the ensemble of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Vorobyovy (then Lenin’s) Hills (1948–1953, co-designed with S. Chernyshov, P. Abrosimov, A. Khryakov, and engineer V. Nasonov). His Palace of Culture and Science in the centre of
Warsaw in Poland (1952-1955) resembles the markedly sculptural style of the MSU ensemble.He was the author of many large scale Soviet projects, including:
* Frunze Military Academy in Moscow (1939),
* Administrative building on Shaposhnikov street( 1934-1938);
* Administrative building on Frunze embankment (1938-1955);
* Buildings ofLatvian Academy of Sciences inRiga
* The main building ofMoscow State University (1949-1953). This is probably the best known of his buildings, for which he was awarded theStalin Prize in 1949;
* House of the Government of theAzerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic inBaku (finished in 1952);
*Palace of Culture and Science inWarsaw inPoland (1952-1955)References
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* [http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/visual_arts/390/ Architect Lev Rudnev, the Author of the Colossus of MSU] en icon
* [http://www.arstudia.ru/rudnev/ Biography and Works] ru icon
* [http://www.mmforce.net/msu/heart/articles.php?mid=1508 Architect of the Main Building of the Moscow University] ru icon
* [http://www.tonnel.ru/?l=gzl&uid=563 Biography] ru icon
* [http://walk.rambler.ru/section.html?s=609&subs=635 Works] ru icon
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