Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin

Infobox Architect


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name=Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
nationality=Russian
birth_date=April 9, 1882
birth_place=Yuryevets
death_date=September 17, 1950
death_place=Moscow
practice_name=Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board
significant_buildings=DnieproGES
significant_projects=Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square
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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 [archINFORM|arch|8971] [ [http://www.utopia.ru/english/item.phtml?id=191&type=graphics&sortby=view&start=0 www.utopia.ru] ] .

elected Work

*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) [Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133, ISBN 5-98051-011-7]

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