Meerson, Joseph Aizikovich

Joseph Aizikovich (Aleksandrovich) Meerson was born in 1900 in the city of Vitebsk into the middle class family of Aizik Zalmanovich Meerson . He studied at the Folk Art School, which was organized by Marc Chagall in 1917. After moving to Petrograd, he entered the State Free Art Workshops, where he met Professor V.E. Tatlin . Together with him, Meerson took part in the famous project of the Monument to the III International.

In 1921 he entered the architectural faculty of the Higher Art and Technical Institute (formerly Academy of Arts) in Petrograd. In 1927, I. A. Meerson completed a graduation project on the theme “The Mausoleum - a Monument to the Figures of the October Revolution”. In 1928 he developed projects for factory kitchens. Four kitchen factories were built in Leningrad according to his projects, together with A.K. Barutchev, I.A. Gilter and Y. O. Rubanchik . He participated in the work of the Leningrad branch of the Association of Architects-Urbanists (AGU) ^[1] .

From the mid-1930s until the outbreak of the war, I. A. Meerson, together with A. K. Barutchev, led the workshop No. 1 of the State Institute of Urban Design (“Giprogora”). With his participation and under his leadership, master plans for many cities of the country were created. Since the second half of the 1930s, he worked on the design of residential buildings and public buildings. I. A. Meerson was one of the first to join the militia in the fall of 1941 and died defending Leningrad .

The architect A.K. Barutchev recalled in the late 1960s: “Joseph was a man of great and distinctive talent, he knew how to work persistently and purposefully. His appearance immediately gave an idea of ​​the temperament inherent in this person. A large head poured into the shoulders with a sharp sculpting of the face, a massive, almost square figure clearly embodied his confident power. And the expression of the eyes, the set of lips and the smile spoke of kindness, of the magnanimous ability of this person to believe in all the best. It was worthwhile to meet any senseless obstacle, hidden or obvious evil, an outbreak of hatred instantly followed - an unprecedented force flurry ” ^[2] .

In Leningrad

• The factory-kitchen of the Vasileostrovsky district (together with A.K. Barutchev , I.A. Gilter , Y. O. Rubanchik and engineer A. G. Dzhorogov, 1928 - 1929 );
• Factory-kitchen of the Nevsky district;
• The factory-kitchen of the Vyborg region (together with A.K. Barutchev, I.A. Gilter, Y. O. Rubanchik and engineer A. G. Dzhorogov, 1928-1929);
• The kitchen factory of the Moscow-Narva (Kirovsky) district (together with A.K. Barutchev, I.A. Guilter, Y. O. Rubanchik and engineer A. G. Dzhorogov, 1928-1929);
• House-commune of workers of Soyuzverfi in Matveev lane (together with Y. O. Rubanchik);
• Central Park of Culture and Rest on Krestovsky Island in Leningrad (all-Union competition; 4th prize; co-authors: A.K. Barutchev, I.A. Gilter, Ya.O. Rubanchik);
• The reconstruction project of Kalinin Square;
• The Palace of the Red Army and Navy in Kronstadt (co-authored with A.K. Barutchev, 1930s ).

In other cities

• Developed master plans for Kirovsk , Yakutsk , Magadan , Petrozavodsk , Yaroslavl (together with N.V. Baranov , 1936 ), Baku ( 1937 ), Gorky (together with I. Ratko, N. Solofonenko, [1937) , Chelyabinsk (together with V.A. Witman, 1937), Kazan (together with I.S. Nosov, 1941 )
• House of Government of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (House of Soviets) in Saransk , 1930s .
• Palace of Culture and Technology named after Stalin in Perm .

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  Vyborg kitchen factory

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  Kirov department store

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  House of Soviets in Saransk

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• Meerson Joseph Aizikovich on the site Soviet architecture
• Meerson Joseph Aizikovich on the SOVARCH website
• Factory kitchen Vasileostrovsky district
• Factory Kitchen Nevsky District
• Factory-kitchen of Vyborgsky district
• Factory Kitchen Kirovsky District
• House-commune of workers of Soyuzverfi