Volodymyr Hnatovych Zabolotny ( uk, Володимир Гнатович Заболотний; August 13, 1898 – August 3, 1962) was a Soviet and Ukrainian architect, founder of the Academy of Architecture of Ukraine and designer of the

Verkhovna Rada building The Verkhovna Rada building ( uk, Будинок Верховної Ради, romanized: ''Budynok Verkhovnoi Rady'') is located in the center of Kyiv, the Pecherskyi District. The building is located at the Constitution Square. It is the plac ...

, Government Palace (Kharkiv).

Biography

Zabolotny was born on in family of craftsman in a village of Karan (later renamed into Trubailivka) of

Poltava Governorate The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a gubernia (also called a province or government) in t ...

, which today is part of the city of

Pereiaslav Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta and Trubizh riv ...

. He finished the local high school during the

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in 1919. In 1921-27 Zabolotny studied and successfully finished the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture as an architect-artist, which then went through number of transformation and was known as Kyiv Arts Institute and was a descendant of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts (1917). By that time

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was completely incorporated in the

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as the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

(since 1922). In the institute his instructor was the notable Russian architect Pavel Alyoshin. Zabolotny also was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Artists of Ukraine that was created in 1925 and the Association of Modern Architects. During his student years he participated in competitions for design at the Palace of Culture in Rostov on Don (1925) and Kyiv Film Studios (1926). After finishing Kyiv Arts Institute, Zabolotny worked as an instructor at the institute as well as in the Kyiv Engineer Construction Institute (today the

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). In 1929-33 he worked on the project design of the

Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway station Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (''Kyiv-Passenger'', uk, Київ-Пасажирський) is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. The station is a railway hub consisting of several railroad station buildings, along with its own repair facilit ...

as an assistant to

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. Among his own first works were Government Palace of the Ukrainian SSR (

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Odessa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administ ...

. Along with it Zabolotny also created a Palace of Culture of the Dnieper Metallurgic Combine in

Dniprodzerzhynsk Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...

and the Regional Consumer AssociationOfficial website of the Regional Consumer Association of Ukraine
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Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. ...

. After the capital had been transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv, Zabolotny participated in the creation of the new Government Center in Kyiv (1935). In 1935-36 along with his students from the Kyiv Engineer Construction Institute, he built several pavilions in the Pioneer Park in Kyiv as well as a puppet theater, a cinema and two multi-story buildings on the Chervonoarmiyska and Tryokhsvyatytelska streets. His finest creation was the

for which he received an honorary diploma from the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine and a prize of 5,000 rubles.

References

External links

Volodymyr Zabolotny: architect, scientist, pedagogue

* ttp://wek.kiev.ua/uk/Заболотний_Володимир_Гнатович Information at the Kyiv Encyclopedia
Photos of Volodymyr Zabolotny

Zabolotny Readings

Kyiv, 1967. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zabolotny, Volodymyr 1898 births 1962 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian architects People from Pereiaslav People from Kyiv Oblast People from Poltava Governorate Communist Party of the Soviet Union members National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture alumni Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Third convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Architectural theoreticians Modernist architects Soviet architects Soviet educators Ukrainian architects Ukrainian educators Deaths from cancer in Ukraine Burials at Baikove Cemetery