Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Леони́д Александрович Веснин; 28 November .S. 10 December1880 – 8 October 1933), was a Russian and Soviet

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. The oldest of

Vesnin brothers The Vesnin brothers: Leonid Vesnin (1880–1933), Victor Vesnin (1882–1950) and Alexander Vesnin (1883–1959) were the leaders of Constructivist architecture, the dominant architectural school of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. E ...

, who were influential in developing

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Biography

Leonid Aleksandrovich was born on 28 November .S. 10 December1880 in a merchant family in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

. He went to Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences from 1890 to 1899. In 1900 he got into

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

and was a student of

Leon Benois Leon Benois (russian: Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа; 1856 in Peterhof – 1928 in Leningrad) was a Russian architect from the Benois family. Biography He was the son of architect Nicholas Benois, the brother of artists Alexandr ...

until he graduated in 1909.

Selected work

*1934

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in 1930s. Brief overview The People's ...

Project *1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarskie district, Moscow *1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow *1926 Mostorg Department store, Moscow *1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project *1922-23 Palace of Labor projectRussian Utopia: a depository
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Leonid Alexandrovich Vesnin, photographs

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1880 births 1933 deaths Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Architects from the Russian Empire Constructivist architects Modernist architects Russian architects Russian avant-garde {{Russia-architect-stub Soviet architects Soviet urban planners Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery