Mikhail Ikonnikov (russian: Михаил Степанович Иконников; uk, Михайло Степанович Іконніков, Mykhailo Stepanovych Ikonnikov) was a Kiev Guberniya architect, once famous among Kiev city residents.
In 1840 Ikonnikov graduated from the
Peterburg Institute of Civil Engineers. He then worked in Kiev in the Governorate Construction Commission as a senior engineer, later as an architect. From 1854 to 1895, Ikonnikov was the Architect of Guberniya. In 1854-57 together with academician and architect K.Skarzhynsky, he built the government building on Sofia Square in
Kiev.
In architecture he preferred forms of Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic and Neo-Russian styles. Ikonnikov used the
Eclectic
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style for the chapel (1869) and tombstone of
Aleksandr Bezak
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and his wife located in the
Kiev Caves Monastery
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Mikhail Ikonnikov is a brother of
Vladimir Ikonnikov.
Works
* Government building at Sofia Square (1854–57)
*
Lukyanivska Prison,
Kiev (1860)
* Church of Nicholas Naberzhny,
Kiev (1863)
* University clinic buildings (1873–83)
External links
Profile at the National Kiev Caves Historic Cultural PreserveProfileat the Portal of Kiev history
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1818 births
1897 deaths
Architects from Kyiv
Russian architects
Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering alumni