Shepilevsky, Modest Anatolyevich

Modest Anatolyevich Shepilevsky - a famous Leningrad architect - artist and teacher.

After graduating from the Institute of Civil Engineers and the I.E. Repin Institute (where his mentors were Academician Ivan Fomin and Professor Lev Rudnev ) he worked in the design and construction workshop of the Leningrad House of Soviets , project leader Academician N. A. Trotsky . ^[one]
architectural monument (federal)

During this pre-war period, M. A. Shepilevsky found creative contact with the architect-artist Alexander Ivanovich Hegello , whom he met at the Institute of Civil Engineers , and then continued cooperation in the fifties, when he worked on the creation of the Memorial and Central Facilities of the city of Kolpino .

From 1939 and during World War II, he headed the architectural workshop of the Central Design Bureau of the Ministry of the Navy of the USSR, and practically stood at the origins of Soviet architectural design of sea vessels. In the future, many of the master’s students will work in the Shipbuilding Bureau in this complex field of architectural and artistic design and ship design. [one]

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  Order of Ushakov . Designed by M. A. Shepilevsky

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  Order of Nakhimov . Designed by M. A. Shepilevsky

During this period, M. Shepilevsky designed the Order of Ushakov , the Order of Nakhimov , medals , an exposition of the Central Naval Museum in the Exchange building, ship interiors and other objects of the USSR Navy.

Throughout the war years, the artist M. A. Shepilevsky worked on a graphic cycle of lithographs devoted to the heroic defense of the city, in 1943-1944 they were printed on postcards. [2]

From 1944 to 1949 he was the head of the workshop N1 of the Leningrad Design Institute, where he worked out projects for the restoration and restoration of the Mariinsky Palace , the building of the Lenin Executive Committee, the Executive Committee of the Kuibyshev District. He also designed the school building, which creates an important emphasis on the corner of the Griboedov Canal and Voznesensky Prospekt .

In the fifties, the architect M. A. Shepilevsky worked a lot on projects of urban monuments . It is interesting that the granite blocks from which the pedestal of the monument to N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov was created is made of stones that used to be on the pedestal of the sculpture of Alexander III , which stood until 1937 on Uprising Square . ^[2] By the way, for this very square , the student of Professor M. A. Shepilevsky, architect V. S. Lukyanov , designed the Obelisk "Hero City of Leningrad" , built in 1985 ^[3] .

In 1949, the architect M. A. Shepilevsky was invited to the Higher School of Economics as head of the Composition department . From 1950 to 1955 - Shepilevsky became the Rector of the Institute, which at that time was named after Vera Ignatievna Mukhina .

Professor M. A. Shepilevsky managed to assemble a highly professional team of teachers, these are N. F. Borushko , I. A. Vaks , V. S. Vasilkovsky , M. E. Gise , L. S. Katonin, V. D. Kirkhoglani , P.E. Kornilov , L.N. Lindrot , Y. N. Lukin, O. L. Lyalin , V. A. Petrov, and others.

All these architects-artists, at one time, made a great contribution to the culture of Leningrad - St. Petersburg .

Modest Anatolyevich Shepilevsky - headed the department for more than thirty years.

During this time, he trained 315 professionals: architects , graphic designers and designers. ^[four]

The students of Professor M. A. Shepilevsky are well-known architects and artists who work in many cities of Russia:

• Oleg Arnold - Head and creator of the First Bureau of Ship Architecture, where he designed the interiors of the legendary Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin" . ^[five]
• Vladimir Lukyanov - Author of the Obelisk “Hero City of Leningrad” , the architect of the first mobile complexes for Siberia and the Far North . ^{[6] [7]}
• Vyacheslav Mikhailenko - Icon painter , well known in Russia and teaching this art, for many years, at home and abroad. ^[eight]
• Valentin Sitkin - Designer of the world's largest Floating bases , such as the "East". ^[9]
• Vladimir Khovralev - Chief Artist of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Puppet Theater , Honored Artist of the Russian Federation . ^[ten]

Architect-artist M.A.Shepilevsky passed on to his students universal knowledge that allows artists to work in different genres of fine art, art design and architecture.

His famous teachers, academicians Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin and Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev , did the same.

• Leningrad House of Soviets arch. N. A. Trotsky , M. A. Shepilevsky, Y. N. Lukin ( 1936 - 1941 ).
• Monument to N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, sculptors V. Ya. Bogolyubov and V.I. Ingal, ( 1952 ). [3]
• The project of the monument to the academician, architect Ivan Alexandrovich Fomin (1939).
• Monuments on the Alley of Heroes in the Moscow Victory Park of Leningrad - M.V. Golubev (1948), V.N. Osipov (1948), V.I. Rakov (1950) and S.I. Bogdanov 1953 . [four]
• Monument to the Heroes of Izhora Battalion, installed in the city of Kolpino in 1959 .
• Naval Museum in the Exchange Building , interior design and exhibition, 1940.
• The central square of the city of Kolpino , 1955.
• The project " Order of Ushakov ", 1 and 2 degrees of 1943 .
• The project " Order of Nakhimov ", 1 and 2 degrees ( 1943 ).
• The project " Ushakov Medals ", 1944.
• The project " Medals of Nakhimov ", 1944.
• A series of graphic works devoted to the defense of the city and printed on postcards in 1943 in Blocked Leningrad. ^[eleven]
• Monument to V. Ya. Bogolyubov , at the Volkovsky cemetery . Sculptor V.V. Isaev , 1955 ). ^{[12] [13]}

Modest Anatolyevich Shepilevsky was buried at the Theological Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

• House of Soviets (St. Petersburg)
• Stalin's architecture
• Kolpino
• Lyalin, Oleg Leonidovich
• Rudnev, Lev Vladimirovich

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• "Wandering Camera" - House of Soviets.
• Architects of the besieged Leningrad.
• M.A.Shepilevsky, Fire of the Gosnardom, 1942.
• Moscow Victory Park.
• Monument to N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
• Monuments of sorrow and victory.
• Fantasies about Goethe
• Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Mikhailenko
• Painter Vladimir Alekseevich Khovralyov.