Vasily Vasilievich Popov ( February 17, 1884 - 1930 ) - Rostov architect.
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| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | builder and architect |
| Spouse | Ekaterina Vasilievna Krasovskaya |
| Children | Vasily, Catherine and Vladimir |
Biography
Vasily Vasilievich Popov was born February 17, 1884 in the village Migulinskaya of the Verkhnedonsky district of the Rostov region in a poor Cossack family. He studied at a parish school. For further education he was sent to the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers. There he met Ekaterina Vasilievna - the daughter of a colonel, the Rostov district military commander V. D. Krasovsky. They soon got married.
Studying at the institute in the early 1900s, he visited Rostov. As a student, Popov drafted a Russian-style chapel at the Sofievsky Cemetery on the outskirts of Nakhichevan. For this project he received a gold medal. The chapel according to his design was built in 1904, consecrated in the name of St. Queen Alexandra. Later, with the participation of the architect, the belfry of the chapel was built. The current chapel is the church of St. Alexandra in Rostov-on-Don.
After graduating from the Institute of Civil Engineers, Popov took up the newly opened position in Rostov as an architect in the Rostov-Nakhichevan city administration. In 1910, Vasily and Ekaterina Popov and their two-year-old son settled in Rostov-on-Don on the ground floor of a three-story apartment building at 60, Pushkinskaya Street (now 22), along with my mother-in-law Julia Ivanovna.
The first project Popov created for the city was the project of a city building located at the intersection of Pushkinskaya Street and Nikolaevsky Lane ( House of Ivan Zvorykin ). The architect made a project of a three-story castle building based on the St. Petersburg Art Nouveau. The accent of the building was a massive five-sided bay window with a two-story tower with a helmet-shaped head. On both sides of the tower on the pedestals of the parapet were sculptures of knights. The facade of the house was combined with granite cladding of the basement with the stucco of the walls of the first floor, ceramic cladding of the walls of the upper floors with stucco decoration.
The building had a clear functional solution. On the ground floor there was an office of the city administration, the basement was occupied by utility rooms. On the second floor of the house was the apartment of the mayor, on the third floor were the apartments of the officials of the city. The north wing of the building was intended for a tenement house. There were rented apartments. The proceeds went to the arrangement of the whole house.
The next architectural project of Popov was the building of the theater-biographer for 1200 spectators. The theater building was built of reinforced concrete with the latest technology. The projection booth was isolated from the auditorium, which is important for fire safety. The theater was decorated with paintings by the artist Veydovsky. The building has been preserved in a modified form. Currently, it houses Kinomax-Pobeda (B. Sadovaya St., 51).
The next work of Popov was the restructuring of the apartment building. At that time, Nakhichevan businessmen competed in Rostov: Melkonov-Ezekov and horse-farmer K. Chernov. At the beginning of the 20th century, they were the owners of apartment buildings, standing on both sides of Bolshoi Prospect (now Voroshilovsky), and together they started the reconstruction of buildings.
The reconstruction of the house of Melkonov-Ezekov was carried out by the urban planning architect V. Popov, and the civil engineer F. Yasinsky was engaged in the reconstruction of the house of K. Chernov. The simultaneous reconstruction of two houses ended with the construction of beautiful houses that adorned the main intersection of streets.
To date, the house-palace of Melkonov-Ezekov has been preserved only in photographs, and the house of K. Chernov was greatly rebuilt after the war.
In 1915, according to the project of Popov, the building of the frequent female gymnasium Filipieva was built. The gymnasium three-story building was built in the neoclassical style. The rhythm of the openings of the white brick building was complemented by three-tier ionic pilasters located in the walls, united by a crowning cornice. The corner, arcuate in plan, part of the facade was decorated with a cartouche, on the shield of which were the initials of the founder of the gymnasium - “AF”. Vertically between the windows of the third and second floors were ornamental inserts of a vegetable pattern. The building was preserved with the loss of a number of stucco decorations. Now Rostov School No. 49 is located here.
In the early 1920s, his wife’s sister and children settled in V. Popov’s apartment, but this did not save their apartment from being sealed. After the Civil War, the architect worked in the management of the Don District Engineer, participated in the construction of a housing cooperative, in the reconstruction and construction of industrial buildings.
Known for his design of the building of the Artyom power plant (1928). Later he was engaged in pedagogical activities at the Polytechnic of Railways of the North Caucasus Railway. The architect Vasily Vasilievich Popov passed away in the summer of 1930. His son Vasily, grandchildren - Catherine and Vladimir became civil engineers.
Literature
- Information about the personnel of the Don district engineer. 1926 // GARO. F. 2598. D. 91. L. 29.
- Tokarev A. G. Continuity in architecture and urban development of Rostov-on-Don of the 1920-1930s: abstract of thesis ... cand. architecture. M., 2000.