Äxmät Bikçäntäyef ( tt-Cyrl, Әхмәт Бикчәнтәев, , , , 1911 – 1985) was an architect.
Biography
Äxmät Bikçäntäyef was born in 1911 in the village of
Olı Mäñgär
Olı Mäñgär ( tt-Cyrl, Олы Мәңгәр, translit=Olı Mäñgär, russian: Большой Менгер) is a rural locality (a selo) in Ätnä District, Tatarstan. The population was 680 as of 2010.
Geography
Olı Mäñgär is located 8 ...
. In 1931–1938 he received professional education in Qazan and
Leningrad institutes of municipal construction engineers; after the completion of studies he worked in the architectural and planning workshop under the Qazan City Executive Committee. Between 1939 and 1945, Bikçäntäyef served in the Red Army and participated in
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina and
German–Soviet War. Since 1947 he worked at Kazan Institute of Civil Engineering, receiving a titile of professor in 1981; at the same time Bikçäntäyef was a chairman of the Union of Architects of the Tatar ASSR (1967–1970).
Works
* The building of the Kazan Institute of Civil Engineering (1947)
* The building of
Qazan State University's chemical faculty (1953)
* administrative center of the village of
Şäpşe TASSR's Biektaw district
Vysokogorsky District (russian: Высокого́рский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Биектау районы, ''Biyektaw rayonı'') is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian ...
* several
Stalin style residential houses in
Qazan.
Awards
* Honored Artist of the Tatar ASSR (1969)
* Laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers Award (1973)
* Honored Architect of the RSFSR (1980)
References
External links
*{{TES, Әхмәт Бикчәнтәев
1911 births
1985 deaths
Soviet architects