Lev Rudnev

Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (Russian Лев Владимирович Руднев; * 1 Märzjul / March 13 1885greg, .. † November 19, 1956 ) was a Russian architect and a representative of the Socialist Classicism.

Life

( Other sources say Veliky Novgorod ) was Rudnev in the city Opochka born into a family of teachers. He attended a grammar school in Riga and graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg ( 1906). At the Academy he studied painting with Leonti Benois and architecture at Ivan Fomin. 1915 graduated Rudnev for art - architects.

After the February Revolution Rudnev won the competition for the monument to the victims of revolution on Mars field in Petrograd ( March 1917 ). The avant-garde monument was built there after his project. 1922-1948 was Rudnev professor at the Art Academy in Leningrad, then 1948-1952 professor at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Rudnev was also a member of the Soviet Academy of Architecture.

Work

He worked as a planner of many large, often described as a pompous monumental projects, including:

• Military Academy M. W. " Frunze " Moscow ( 1939)
• Administration building on Shaposhnikov Street (1934-1938)
• Administration building on Frunze Embankment (1938-1955)
• Main building of Moscow State University (1949-1953), probably his most famous buildings, Stalin Prize in 1949
• Government building of the Azerbaijan SSR in Baku ( ended 1952)
• Palace of Culture (Warsaw ) ( 1952-1955 )
• Palace of Culture (Riga ) ( 1952-1955 )