Stepanov, George Petrovich

Georgy Petrovich Stepanov was born on February 23, 1924. in Leningrad, Mama Stepanova (Radko) Ekaterina Stepanovna (1887-1936). Dad - Stepanov Petr Stepanovich (1886-1937) worked as the chief mechanic at the plant named after N. G. Kozitsky. In 1941, Georgy Stepanov entered the secondary school at the All-Russian Academy of Arts, but the Great Patriotic War dramatically changed life. Together with the school, he was evacuated from the besieged Leningrad to Samarkand, and in August 1942 he was enrolled in the Tashkent Red Banner Infantry School. V.I. Lenin (now the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School ) and after short-term training was sent to the front. Georgy Petrovich fought in the 438th Infantry Regiment of 129 Oryol Division on the 1st and 2nd Belorussian fronts as an assistant platoon commander and foreman of the company, marched from Orel to Augustovo in East Prussia, and was wounded. He participated in the liberation of the cities of Oryol, Unega, Klintsy, Bialystok. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", a letter from the Supreme Commander.

In 1946 he entered the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repin, in 1952 awarded the title of architect-artist. Thesis - "The Theater of the Young Spectator in Leningrad" Levinson's workshop, the assessment of the SAC "excellent". In 1955 he entered graduate school. Archive of the academician of architecture Stepanov Georgy Petrovich is in the Central State Archive of Literature and Art of St. Petersburg " TSGALI SPb" .

He died on December 26, 2007, was buried in the Smolensk cemetery.

1953-1956 - Music and Drama Theater with 900 seats in the city of Krasnoyarsk-26 (now Zheleznogorsk ) now there is the Operetta Theater of Zheleznogorsk , the author of arch. G.P. Stepanov, together with arch. B. G. Mashin and V. S. Pakhomov.

1956 - All-Union Competition (Moscow) I place, the project of a large-format theater for 1600 seats, together with arch. I.I. Strepetov, engineer A.P. Morozov.

1960 - Competition project of the metro station “Finlandsky Vokzal” category 1, Leningrad Authors: arch. G.P. Stepanov, I.I. Strepetov

1965 - The National Theater Project in Budapest, II Prize, international competition, Budapest. Authors: arch. G.P. Stepanov, arch. I.I. Strepetov, stage technologist V. Bazanov

1985 - Monument to the tank designer J. Y. Kotin on the territory of the Kirov plant. Authors: arch. G.P. Stepanov, L.G. Badallian, and B.A. Plenkin.

1983 - The project of the monument in honor of the 250th anniversary of the accession of Kazakhstan to Russia. Authors: arch. G.P. Stepanov, L.G. Badalyan, sk. A. G. Dema,

1987 - memorial plaques for the city of Kazan dedicated to the gathering of Kazan students, Authors:, arch. G.P. Stepanov, arch. Z. T. Stepanova, sk. Yu.Vashkevich, sk. V. Onezhko, stone carvers V. Kozin, A. Kuhnov.

1990 - Memorial plaques on the building of the Polytechnic Institute, academicians Gudtsov, Ageev, Kurnakov (Shorin (Arch. G.P. Stepanov., Z. Stepanova.)

1991 - memorial plaque to the inventor of sound cinema A.F. Shorin (Arch. G.P. Stepanov., Z. T. Stepanova., Sk. R.I. Robachevsky granite, bronze, St. Petersburg, Blokhin St., 3/4 .)

2001 - The project of reconstruction of the ensemble of the square of the Peter the Great Hospital with the installation of a monument to Peter I. Authors: G.P. Stepanov arch. Z. T. Stepanova, sculptor A.S. Charkin .

He started his pedagogical activity at the I.E. Repin LISSA in 1955. Created a faculty of advanced training for teachers of art universities at the institute in 1972, and was his dean from 1972 to 1975. From 1976, he was a professor at the Department of Architectural Design., Dean of the Architecture Department in 1975-1981, taught the course “Architectural Graphics” on 1-2 year of the Faculty of Architecture, created by the efforts of a team of professors G.P. Stepanov, A.A. Gavrichkov, V. B. Shmyrov, S. S. Zhiltsov. was a party organizer of the university.

1981-1988 - Georgy Petrovich was the rector of the Higher School of Arts named after V.I. Mukhina , the head of the department of architectural design and headed the personal workshop at the Higher School of Economics. Under George Petrovich, the interiors of the Stieglitz Museum were restored, the institute received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (Moscow, Kremlin, decree of 09/04/1986)

1980-1988 - Member of the Presidium of the Board of the Leningrad Branch of the Union of Architects of the USSR He was chairman of the constituent committee of the Leningrad Union of Designers of the RSFSR. He was elected as a deputy of the Dzerzhinsky regions (1982-1986).

In 1984 he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR"

in 1997 - the title of Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences (RAASN).

Member of specialized councils for the award of candidate and doctoral degrees at IZHSIA them. I.E. Repin and LISI., Under his leadership, many candidate and doctoral dissertations were defended. His students became well-known architects and artists in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Odessa, Lviv and other cities of Russia and abroad, they head departments and architectural workshops.

In 1963, the textbook “Fundamentals of Architectural Composition” was published (G. P. Stepanov and A. V. Ikonnikov), and the monograph “The Aesthetics of a Socialist City.”

1958 - defense of the dissertation “Basic principles of designing a city cinema” 1973 defense of the doctoral dissertation on the theme “Problems of the interaction of architecture and monumental art”, as a result, the academic degree of a doctor of art history and the academic title of professor were approved.

In 1984, the fundamental work "Compositional Problems of the Synthesis of Arts."

Architects are veterans. Participants of the great patriotic war.

"Interaction of the arts." Stepanov G.P., Shchedrina G.K. Dresden / Leningrad organization of the Order of Lenin of the Union of Architects of the USSR. - L .: Stroyizdat. Leningra. Otdel, 1976 .-- 120 s. - (Twin cities of Leningrad). (region)

G.P. Stepanov, A.V. Ikonnikov , Aesthetics of a socialist city- M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, 1963. - 288 p.

G.P. Stepanov, A.V. Ikonnikov , Fundamentals of architectural composition: Textbook. - M .: Art, 1971. - 224 p. - 15,000 copies