Gevirts, Yakov Germanovich

He studied at the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts ( Leonty Nikolayevich Benois workshop ( 1899 - 1906 ). In 1908, he won the competition for the design of a new complex of buildings at the Jewish Transfiguration Cemetery of St. Petersburg, entered the Community Building Committee, which collaborated until the 1920s and was the architect of the Preobrazhensky Jewish cemetery.

Full member of the Archaeological Institute. Secretary of the Society of Architects-Artists ( 1910s ).

From 1922 he taught at VHUTEIN - LVHTI - INPI - LIHSA (former Academy of Arts), since 1936 - Dean of the Faculty of Architecture.

He died in besieged Leningrad, was buried in a mass grave of professors of the Academy of Arts at the Decembrist Island cemetery.

In St. Petersburg - Petrograd

• The stock office (1911, in 1913 M. A. Ginsburg transferred the building to the Community to house the Jewish poorhouse and educational institutions),
• The fence of the Great Choral Synagogue (1908),
• Riga Exchange Bank (1913);
• Architectural solution of the monument to G. V. Plekhanov, artistic gravestones.
• Kirillovskaya street , house number 4 - the mansion of V. A. Tryanichev (N. N. Bashkirova). 1905 - 1906 .
• Malookhtinsky Avenue , 10, is the apartment house of the Novgorod Tithe Monastery. 1908 .
• Kirillovskaya street , d. № 22 - apartment house. 1908 .
• Kronverksky Prospect , d. № 9 - the building of cinema "Colosseum". 1908 . (Not preserved). (Not to be confused with the existing Colosseum cinema !).
• Avenue Alexandrovskaya Farm , d. № 66a - the house of washing and funeral services of the departed and office house at the Preobrazhensky Jewish cemetery. 1908 - 1912 .
• 7th Sovetskaya Street , d. № 9 - apartment house. Add-in and extension. 1910 .
• 6th Sovetskaya Street , 33, is an apartment building. 1910 .
• 8th Sovetskaya Street , 23, is an apartment building. 1910 .
• 3rd line , d. № 48, yard - apartment house. 1910 . Making travel to the yard. 1912 .
• Zverinsky street , d. № 20 - profitable house. 1910 - 1911 .
• Small Avenue Vasilyevsky Island , d. № 48-50 - apartment house. 1911 . Together with L.P. Andreev.
• The 5th line , d. № 50 - the building of the Jewish poorhouse to them. M.A. Ginsburg. 1911 .
• 5th line , d. № 62, left side - apartment house. Restructuring. 1912 .
• Aptekarsky Avenue , house number 8 / Professor Popov Street , house number 7 - an apartment building. 1912 - 1914 .
• Prospect Dobrolyubova , d. № 19 - profitable house shares. Society "Builder". 1912 - 1915 .
• Lev Tolstoy Street , d. № 7 - apartment house. 1913 .
• Bolshaya Monetnaya street , d. № 18 - apartment building Society "Builder". 1914 - 1915 .
• Voznesensky Prospect , d. № 27, the right side - the portal and the main staircase. Restructuring. 1916 .

At the Transfiguration Cemetery of St. Petersburg

• The complex of buildings (1908-13)
• Orangery (1913),
• The project of finishing the House of ablution and funeral (1915, not implemented)

In other cities

• Kharkiv Choral Synagogue (1912-1913),
• Reconstruction of the Soldier’s synagogue in Rostov-on-Don (1913–1914),
• The synagogue in Mariupol (1914).

• Brother Vladimir Germanovich Gevirts (14 (27) .03.1884 - 10.28.1944), civil engineer (1914), lecturer at the Institute of Physics and Architecture - LISI in 1919–1944, doctor of technical sciences, professor, head. Department of construction technology.

• Architects of St. Petersburg. XIX - early XX century / comp. V. G. Isachenko ; ed. Y. Artemyeva, S. Prokhvatilova. - SPb. : Lenizdat , 1998. - 1070 p. - ISBN 5-289-01586-8 .
• Shabunina E.I. Creativity of the architect Ya.G. Gevirts after 1917 // Actual problems of theory and history of art : Sat. scientific articles. Issue 3. / Ed. S.V. Maltseva, E.Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova. - SPb .: NP-Print, 2013. P. 308–313. - ISSN 2312-2129

• Creator of the new classics (2009)
• St. Petersburg Assemblies
• Jews in Petersburg