Gegello, Alexander Ivanovich

Born in Ekaterinoslav in 1891 .

Father - titular adviser Ivan G. Gegello, served as a district doctor in Verkhnedneprovsky district, Yekaterinoslav province, died before his son was born. ^[one]

Mother - Elena Konstantinovna (Lashkova), was a teacher.

From 1902 he studied at the Yekaterinoslav Classical Gymnasium , after which, together with his mother and older brother Mikhail (later became a doctor), he moved to St. Petersburg . ^[2]

In 1910 he entered the Institute of Civil Engineers . During his studies, he worked at construction sites of architect I. A. Fomin .

In 1921 he entered the architectural department of the Academy of Arts, which he successfully completed in 1923 .

Over the next thirty years, he and his assistants completed more than 300 projects, of which more than a hundred were implemented.

• 1916-1924 - assistant in the workshop of I. A. Fomin
• Since 1924 - Design Bureau of the Stroycom (since 1926. Stroykomkhoz)
• 1929-1933 - taught at the Leningrad Institute of Public Utilities ( LIIKS ) e
• 1936 - a trip to England , France and Sweden
• 1934-1948 - head of workshop No. 62 of Lenproekt
• 1948-1950 - headed the Leningrad branch of the USSR Academy of Architecture
• During the Great Patriotic War, he lived and worked in Novosibirsk
• 1950 - elected vice-president of the Academy of Architecture
• 1950 - moving to Moscow
• Honorary member of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the USSR

Leningrad. Projects and buildings

• The House of Culture of the Moscow-Narva District (1925, co-author DL Krichevsky , competition; carried out in 1927; now the Gorky House of Culture );
• Monument to V.I. Lenin - “The Hut” in Razliv (1926–1927);
• Tractor Street (1925–1927, co-authors: A. S. Nikolsky , G. A. Simonov )
• Palace of Culture "Vyborg" 1925-1929; co-author D. L. Krichevsky );
• Crematorium in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery (1927);
• Botkin Hospital (1927–1930, co-authors: D. L. Krichevsky , G. A. Simonov , open OAH competition);
• Hospital them. Erisman (1927-1930, co-author: M. D. Felger );
• The Palace of Culture named after I.I. Gaza (1930-1935);
• House of Technical Studies (1931-1932);
• “ Big House ” - the NKVD (1931–1933, co-authors: N. E. Lancere , A. A. Ol , N. A. Trotsky );
• The Palace of Cinema (Giant Cinema) (1933-1935, co-author: D. L. Krichevsky );
• Crematorium (1929 - at the Volkov cemetery; 1933 - at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery);
• School on Mokhovaya St., 19 (1935, co-authors: D. L. Krichevsky , E. G. Gruzdeva);
• Bath on the street. Tchaikovsky, 1 (1935; Ing. E. M. Efraimovich; built in 1939);
• Bath on Chkalovsky Ave .;
• School on emb. Robespierre (1936, co-author: N.V. Drozdov);
• House of Soviets (1936, closed competition, co-author: L. S. Kosven, B. S. Rebortovich, S. T. Dezhenkov);
• Palace of Pioneers - new buildings (1936–1937, co-author: DL Krichevsky );
• Department store of the Moscow district (1938);

Projects for other cities

• Hospital in Vyshny Volochyok (1926, co-author G. A. Simonov );
• Theater in Tashkent ;
• Theater in Polotsk (1929–1931);
• Working settlement at the railway station Inya (1942);
• The club and residential buildings on Kommuny Square in Sevastopol (1948-1951);
• House of Soviets in Orel (1952);
• Monument to V.I. Lenin in Kazan (1953, sculptor P.P. Yatsyno );
• The complex of buildings on the central square of the city of Kolpino (1955; co-authors: M. A. Shepelevsky and M. Ya. Klimentov).

• 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (02.11.1944; 1956)

• "The contribution of the architects of the city of Lenin to the Soviet architecture." Architecture and construction. 1948 № 1. Pp. 4-7.

• Gegello A.I. From the creative experience: The emergence and development of architectural design. - Leningrad: Institute of Theory and History of Architecture State publishing house of literature on construction, architecture and building materials, 1962. - 376 p.
• Utility issues. 1929
• Yearbook of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Architects. Release 1-2 (XV-XVI). Leningrad. 1940. S. 78-91, 144, 148, 177.
• "BUT. I. Gegello. Architectural graphics in the collection of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg. ”/ / Proceedings of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg. Issue 13. SPb. 2006 Comp. L. Kirikova. A. S. 127–170.
• Isachenko V. G. Alexander Gegello //. Architects of St. Petersburg. XX century. Comp. Isachenko V. G. SPb .: Lenizdat. 2000, pp. 86-99.
• Leningrad House of Soviets. Architectural competitions of the 1930s. SPb .: GMISPb. 2006