Leonid Vesnin
Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (10 December 1880 – 8 October 1933) was a Russian and Soviet architect. He was the eldest of the Vesnin brothers, who were influential in developing Constructivist architecture.
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Leonid Vesnin
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- Leonid Vesnin
- Birth Name
- Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin
- Born
- 10 December 1880
- Birthplace
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire
- Died
- 8 October 1933
- Place of death
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Education
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- architect
- Honours
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (10 December 1880 – 8 October 1933) was a Russian and Soviet architect. He was the eldest of the Vesnin brothers, who were influential in developing Constructivist architecture.
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• Name — Leonid Vesnin • Birth Name — Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin • Born — 10 December 1880 • Birthplace — Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire • Died — 8 October 1933 • Place of death — Moscow, Soviet Union • Education — Imperial Academy of Arts • Practice — Vesnin brothers • Significant Buildings — ZIL Palace of culture Mostorg Department store • Significant Projects — Leningradskaya Pravda Narkomtyazhprom • Parents — Vesnin Alexander Alexandrovich, Vesnina (Ermolaeva) Elizaveta Alekseevna
Biography
Biography
Leonid Aleksandrovich was born on 10 December 1880 in a merchant family in Nizhny Novgorod. He went to Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences from 1890 to 1899. In 1900 he got into Imperial Academy of Arts and was a student of Leon Benois until he graduated in 1909.
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• Illustration — Stamps of Azerbaijan, 2017 • 1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry 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 project
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- 1.Чиняков А. Г. Братья Веснины. 1970.
- 2.Полякова Л. Л. Зодчие братья Веснины. 1989.
- 3.Зодчие Москвы времени эклектики, модерна и неоклассицизма (1830-е–1917 годы): илл. биогр. словарь. 1998. 5-900395-17-0.
- 4.Казусь И. А. Советская архитектура 1920-х годов: организация проектирования. 2009. 978-5-89826-291-4.
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