Arkady G. Mordvinov (real name - Mordvishev (according to other sources - Mordvishev [1] ); 1896 - 1964 ) - Soviet architect . Laureate of two Stalin Prizes ( 1941 , 1949 ). President of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1950-1955). Member of the RCP (b) since 1919 .
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| Date of Birth | January 15 (27), 1896 | |||||
| Place of Birth | with. Crane, Nizhny Novgorod Province , Russian Empire | |||||
| Date of death | July 23, 1964 (68 years old) | |||||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | |||||
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| Worked in the cities | Moscow | |||||
| Architectural style | Stalin's Empire | |||||
| The most important buildings | hotel "Ukraine" | |||||
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Biography
Arkady Grigoryevich was born on January 15 (27), 1896 in the village of Zhuravlyha (now the Pochinkovsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region ). The son of an icon painter. He spent his childhood in the village of Varezh near Pavlov . He graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of MVTU in 1930 . Mordvinov’s early works relate to constructivism , for example, the post office building in Kharkov , but in 1929 he became one of the organizers of the Vopra association, which opposed representatives of avant-garde movements in Soviet architecture. In particular, Mordvinov sharply criticized I. I. Leonidov , accusing the architect of sabotage, and called his work "Leonidovism" - "petty-bourgeois trend in architecture" [2] . In the early 1930s, he worked as the deputy head of the architectural and design workshop No. 3 of the Archplan of the Moscow City Council (the head of the workshop was I. A. Fomin ); was part of a permanent architectural meeting of the Council for the Construction of the Palace of Soviets under the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee [1] .
Chairman of the Committee for Architecture under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1943–47).
President of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR in 1950-1955.
The initiator of the flow-speed construction of residential buildings, used in Moscow on the streets of Gorky (1937-1939); Leninsky Prospekt , (1939-1940); Big Glade (1940); embankments of the Moscow River (1940-1941); Novinsky Boulevard (1939-1941).
Among Mordvinov's other works is the Ukraine Hotel in conjunction with V.K. Oltarzhevsky and others, 1957 .
Arkady Grigoryevich died on June 23, 1964 . He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 6).
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the second degree ( 1941 ) - for the architecture of residential buildings on Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street in Moscow
- The Stalin Prize of the first degree ( 1949 ) - for the architectural design of the high-rise building of the Ukraine Hotel on Dorogomilovskaya Embankment in Moscow
- The order of Lenin
- two orders of the Red Banner of Labor
Implemented Projects
- Hotel " Ukraine " (together with V.K. Oltarzhevsky and others,) (1953-1957);
- Laying (with co-authors) and development of Komsomolsky Prospekt in Moscow (1958–65);
- Residential buildings on Tverskaya Street (formerly Gorky Street) in Moscow (No. 2, 4, 6, 8) (1937-1940);
- A complex of residential buildings on Frunze Embankment in Moscow (No. 26, 32, 34) (1939).
- The complex of residential buildings on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow (No. 12, 16-28) (1939-1940)
See also
- Constructivism
- Stalin's Empire
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Kazus I.A. Soviet architecture of the 1920s: design organization. - Progress-Tradition, 2009 .-- S. 170, 278, 449. - 488 p. - ISBN 5-89826-291-1 .
- ↑ Khan-Magomedov S.O. Architecture of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Book 1: Problems of Formation. Masters and currents. - M .: Stroyizdat, 1996. - S. 620-621. - 709 p. - ISBN 5-274-02045-3 .