Demidov, Serafim Vasilievich

Born on January 6, 1919 in Moscow, on Taganskaya Street , in a large family of an employee (besides him there were two older brothers and a sister). Mother died in 1920 from the Spanish flu when the boy was one and a half years old.

He studied at school number 13 in Moscow, where he became interested in painting and architecture. In the last classes of the school he attended preparatory courses for admission to the Moscow Architectural Institute .

Entering MARCHI, he focused on industrial architecture. In the summer of 1941, he completed an internship at the construction of garages at Aviation Plant No. 22 at Fili . However, all young people who completed the third and fourth courses of the Moscow Architectural Institute were removed from practice and sent to the Moscow Military Engineering Academy to teach engineering and sapper engineering. From November 1941 to December 1943, the academy and students were evacuated in the city of Frunze .

In November 1942, graduates of accelerated courses of the military academy were sent to the front, where Lieutenant Demidov was in the 13th engineer-sapper Novosokolnichesky brigade , with which he participated in the battles of the Demyansk boiler and then went through the whole war, fighting on the North-Western Front , on the Second Baltic (in the Great Bow region) and on the Leningrad fronts .

After demobilization, in the fall of 1945 he recovered at the MarxI. In 1947, the thesis on the design of the Kama hydroelectric complex received the first prize of the USSR Architecto Union .

It was distributed to Gidroproekt , where, together with Fedor Topunov, he developed the drawings and technological documentation for the new location of the gateway control centers of the Volga-Don canal (later he was the author of the triumphal arch of the 13th gateway of the Volga-Don canal, Volzhskaya HPP named after Lenin and other structures).

In 1955 he switched to teaching at the Moscow Architectural Institute, where he defended his thesis and headed the department of industrial structures for twenty years. In addition to teaching, he also carried out design work: he worked out a reconstruction project for the Moscow oil refinery , was engaged in the Kama oil refinery and reconstruction of the Second Moscow watch factory , a project for the Moscow spinning and weaving factory in Izmailovo and other facilities.

In 2003 he retired. He is engaged in painting and graphics, a participant in numerous art exhibitions, the author of architectural reviews and articles, one of the co-authors of the book “The History of Industrial Specialization in the Architectural School of Russia” ^[2] .

• Order of Honor ( July 9, 2002 ) - for achieved labor successes, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples and many years of conscientious work ^[3] .
• The medal "For Labor Valor" ( September 21, 1966 ) - for services to the training of specialists, the development of Russian architecture and in connection with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow Architectural Institute ^[4] .
• Two orders of the Red Star .
• Two orders of World War I degree.
• Medal "For Military Merit" .
• Honored Architect of the RSFSR ( December 24, 1980 ) - for his services in the field of Soviet architecture ^[5] .
• Title Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation .
• Honorary citizen of the city of Novosokolniki (1985 ^[6] ).