Prokhorov, Sergey Lvovich

Before the revolution, he worked on the Moscow-Brest Railway, where he supervised the construction of track structures. At the turn of the 1910-1920s, he studied / worked in Germany, where he studied German experience and the technology of manufacturing hollow concrete blocks. Under the Soviet regime, he created and led the Tehbeton Architectural Cooperative Partnership (1925–1935), an organization involved in the implementation of hollow blocks (“concrete stones”) in construction ^{[Comm. 1]} . Collaborated with M.Ya. Ginzburg , I.A. Golosov , V.N. Vladimirov, I.F. Milinis , A.L. Parsnip .

In the 1920s, he participated in the construction and was one of the authors of typical constructive solutions of the late 1920s: the house of the RZHSKT "Demonstration Construction" (Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow), the hostel of the Cotton Factory (Rostokino, Moscow), the residential building of Uralsovnarkhoz (Sverdlovsk) , houses RZHSKT "Worker" for railway workers (Saratov). He proposed a number of innovative designs and building materials.

The most famous work is the house of the People's Commissariat of Finance (Moscow), in collaboration with architects M.Ya. Ginzburg and I.F. Milinis. ^[1] . According to the remark of E.B. Ovsyannikova , without the participation of this experienced engineer, the Narkomfin’s house could not be built so successfully ^[2] . In the absence of the construction industry, it ensured the production of slag blocks and other building materials directly from the construction site, from which the facades of the house are made, as well as blind interroom partitions. As I.A. writes It seems, “It was not only a social and household and architectural search, but also an experiment in the application of new structural and technological solutions, industrial production of standard reinforced concrete and concrete elements and their installation at a construction site. The load-bearing columns calculated in Tekhbeton and the walls, mounted on consoles, made it possible to perform tape glazing, which gave the building a new, figurative characteristic. Based on these principles, the Uraloblsovnarkhoz residential building in Sverdlovsk was also decided (architects M.Ya. Ginzburg, A.L. Pasternak, engineer S.L. Prokhorov) ” ^[3] .

Since the mid-1930s, the name of Prokhorov has disappeared from public space for many decades. The only photo of Sergei Lvovich of the 1930s, published in the book "Residential complex" The House of the People's Commissariat of Finance ", Moscow, 1928-1932." - Ekaterinburg: TATLIN, 2015, p. 431 - transferred to the authors of the publication from a private collection.

He lived in Moscow. He was married to Prokhorova Militsa Ivanovna, architect (1907 - 1959).

• The rational system of hollow concrete walls / Ing. S.L. Prokhorov. - Moscow: bargaining. D.P. Shchapov and Co. °, 1912. - VIII, 62 p., 49 features.
• Recent achievements in the construction of concrete stones: Report made February 17, 1928 in the Design section of the OSA. - [Moscow]: type. "The Red Proletariat", [1928] (M.). - 11 p. : damn., graph .; 30x23 cm.
• Modern construction of hollow concrete stones with a reinforced concrete frame: Comp. based on reports, read. author at the Presidium of Moss., All-Russian. assoc. Ing. (WAI), Mosk. architect o-ve (MAO), Military-scientific o-ve at the military.-builds. control (Armed Forces of the Red Army) / Ing. S. L. Prokhorov. - Moscow: [Ed. ed.], 1926. - 96 p. : ill., damn .; 26 cm.
• Cheap concrete construction [Text]: From appendix: 1. Technical conditions and production standards ... 2. Atlas of photographic images from buildings and drawings / Ing. S. L. Prokhorov; Ed. B.I. Zhurina. - Leningrad: Science and School, 1927 (typ. Them. N. Bukharin). - 78 p., [18] p. ill., damn. : ill., damn., diag .; 23x15 cm. - (Atlas).

Footnotes

• Soviet architecture of the 1920s: design organization. Author: Kazus Igor Alexandrovich.
• Residential complex "House of the Uraloblsovet", Yekaterinburg, 1929-1933, architects Moses Ginzburg, Alexander Pasternak, Sergey Prokhorov / L. I. Tokmeninova. - Ekaterinburg: TATLIN, 2015 .-- 56 p. : ill. - (Archive; 11). - General pagination in the series. - ISBN 978-5-000750-42-1
• Residential complex "House of the People’s Commissar", Moscow, 1928-1932, architects Moses Ginzburg, Ignatius Milinis, Sergey Prokhorov / E. B. Ovsyannikova, E. Milyutina. - Yekaterinburg: TATLIN, 2015 .-- 64 p. : ill. - (Archive; 10). - General pagination in the series. - ISBN 978-5-000750-38-4
• Engineer S. L. Prokhorov and the architecture of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s. / I.A. Kazus. - S. 245-252. Khan-Magomedov readings: materials int. conf. / comp .: Yu. P. Volchok, A.N. Selivanova; open ed. I.A. Bondarenko; Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Township. - SPb. : Kolo, 2015 .-- 448 p. : ill.