Felix Aronovich Novikov (russian: Феликс Аронович Новиков, 3 August 1927 – 18 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian architect. In 1991, he was awarded the honorary title of
People's Architect of the USSR
People's Architect of the USSR (russian: Народный архитектор СССР), also sometimes translated as National Architect of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to architects of the Soviet Union; it was established on August 12 ...
, becoming the last awardee of the title.
His architectural projects span the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. The earlier ones belong to the mainstream tradition of the Soviet architecture, however, starting from the 1960s, Novikov's projects became innovative.
His main projects included
Krasnopresnenskaya metro station (1954, together with
Victor Yegerev, M. Konstantinov, and I. Pokrovsky), residential buildings on embankments of the
Yauza (1950s, together with Yegerev and Pokrovsky), and the building of the
Palace of Young Pioneers, all in Moscow.
Novikov died in
Rochester, New York
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on 18 August 2022, at the age of 95.
Literature
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Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 4. Modernized Socialist Realism: 1955–1991. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2022. P.53. .
References
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1927 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Russian architects
Russian architects
Soviet architects
Soviet urban planners
Russian urban planners
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Architects from Baku