Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (russian: Виктор Александрович Веснин; April 9, 1882 – September 17, 1950), was a Russian Empire and

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers

Leonid Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide. People with the name include: *Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright a ...

(1880–1933) and

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(1883–1959) emerged as leaders of

Constructivist architecture Constructivist architecture was a constructivist style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Abstract and austere, the movement aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space, while ...

, the ''Vesnin brothers''. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.

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 *1927-1932 DnieproGES, with

Nikolai Kolli Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (russian: Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли; – 3 December 1966) was a Soviet and Russian Modernist— Constructivist architect, architectural functionary, and city pl ...

*1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow *1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow *1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow *1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project *1922-23 Palace of Labor project *1915 Sirotkin House,

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 ...

*1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin) Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133,

References

External links

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin, photographs

Canadian Centre for Architecture The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street ...

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