Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (6 January 1882 in

Bielsk Podlaski Bielsk Podlaski ( be, Бельск Падляскі, , yi, ביעלסק, Bielsk) is a town in eastern Poland, within Bielsk County in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 24,883. Geography Bielsk Podla ...

Grodno Governorate The Grodno Governorate, (russian: Гро́дненская губе́рнiя, translit=Grodnenskaya guberniya, pl, Gubernia grodzieńska, be, Гродзенская губерня, translit=Hrodzenskaya gubernya, lt, Gardino gubernija, u ...

– 3 January 1951 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Soviet Belarusian

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and

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(1934). Langbard studied architecture at the

Grekov Odessa Art school The Grekov Odesa Art School ( ua, Одеське художнє училище імені Митрофана Грекова; abbreviated ОХУ) is a secondary education institution in Odesa, Ukraine. It is the oldest arts school in the country. ...

in 1901 and then

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(1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in

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. Langbard also worked on buildings in

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after it became the Ukrainian capital,Kiev Ancient and Modern City Mykola Fedorovych Kotliar, "After the Ukrainian capital was moved to Kiev construction started on the central government square over the Dnieper Hills (architect IG Langbard). " such as the building of the

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Works

* Monument to

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

Gallery

File:Foreign Ministery.jpg, Foreign Ministry, Kyiv File:Belarus-Minsk-Army Palace and Tank Monument.jpg, Officers' House, Minsk File:Магілёў. Дом урада.JPG, ''Oblispolkom'', Mogilev File:Belarus-Minsk-House of Government and Vladimir Lenin Monument-1.jpg,

Government House, Minsk russian: Дом правительства , image = House of Government (Minsk) 20190502.jpg , caption = Government House in 2019 , location = Independence Square, Minsk , location_country = Belarus , coordinates = , start_date = 1930 , architect ...

File:Belarus-Minsk-Academy of Sciences-2.jpg, Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk File:Belarus-Minsk-Army Palace and Tank Monument-2.jpg, Officer's House, Minsk File:Belarus-Minsk-House of Government-1.jpg, Government House, Minsk File:House of Government in Minsk.jpg, Government House, Minsk File:Theatre opera&ballet, Minsk.JPG, National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk

References

External links

* Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Avant-garde: 1917–1933. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. P. 162
Архитектор Иосиф Григорьевич Лангбард (1882—1951). К 125- летию со дня рождения

* ttp://archives.gov.by/index.php?id=202804 Творчество архитектора И. Г. Лангбарда
Архитектор Иосиф Лангбард

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Дом офицеров в Минске. История и настоящее
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