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Mikhail Posokhin
Mikhail Vasilyevich Posokhin (; 30 November 1910 - 22 January 1989) was a Soviet, Russian architect and teacher. People's Architect of the USSR (1970). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1962), State Prize of the USSR (1980) and Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949). He is mostly known for being Chief Architect of Moscow (1960–1980). Among his main completed projects are a high-rise residential building on Kudrinskaya Square and the development of New Arbat Avenue in Moscow. He served as a member of the Union of Architects of the USSR. Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1979), member of the Presidium, academician-secretary of the Department of Architecture and Monumental Art of the USSR Academy of Arts (1979). Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Architecture (1950–1955), Academy of Construction and Architecture (1956–1963). Biography Early life Born on November 30 (December 13), 1910 in Tomsk. His parents, Vasily Mikhailovich and Maria Alexandrovna, belonged to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomsk
Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population: Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six universities, with over 100,000 students, including Tomsk State University, the oldest university in Siberia. Etymology The city is named after the Tom River, whose name may derive either from the Ket language, Ket word ''toom'' ("river") or from the Russian language, Russian word ''tyomny'' ("dark"). History Tomsk originated with a decree by Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604 after , the Siberian Tatars, Tatar duke of , asked for the Tsar's protection against Yenisei Kirghiz, Kyrgyz. The Tsar sent 200 Cossacks under the command of and Gavriil Ivanovich Pisemsky to construct a fortress on the bank of the Tom River, overlooking what would become the city of Tomsk. Toian ceded the land for the fortress to the Tsar. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years Of Victory In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
The Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" () was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on April 25, 1975, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to denote the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Medal Statute The Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" was awarded to: all military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of the USSR who took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 – 1945, to partisans of the Great Patriotic War, to the personnel of the Armed Forces of the USSR, as well as any other persons who were awarded the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Medal "For the Victory over Japan" or the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". The medal was awarded on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR by commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Defense In Russia
Civil defense in Russia is the system of measures to protect people and material assets in the Russian Federation in the event of hostilities, natural disasters or technological disasters, as well as the preparation of such measures. These measures include sheltering, evacuation, disguising facilities, first aid and basic residents. The procedure for organizing civil defense is enshrined in the federal laws ''On Civil Defense'' (1998), ''On Protection against Emergencies of Natural and Technogenic Character'' (1994) and ''On Emergency and Rescue Services'' (1995). History For the first time, civil defense events in Russia began to be held during the First World War. The advent of aviation and chemical weapons contributed to striking economic and infrastructure facilities located behind enemy lines. Often, the bombing of cities was carried out in order to intimidate and demoralize the population. Therefore, the military command of the army and authorities began to develop and carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashot Mndoyants
Ashot or Ashod () is an Armenian given name. Notable persons with the name include: Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty * Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826), Armenian prince *Ashot I of Armenia (Ashot the Great, 820–890), ruled 885–890 *Ashot II Yerkat (Ashot the Iron, died 929), ruled 914–929 *Ashot II Bagratuni, 7th-century Armenian monarch * Ashot III Bagratuni (690–762), Armenian nobleman of the Bagratuni dynasty *Ashot III Voghormats (Ashot the Merciful, died 977), ruled 953–977 *Ashot IV Qadj (Ashot the Brave), ruled 1021–1039/1040 Kings of Tao-Klarjeti *Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot I Kuropalates, died 830), King of Tao-Klarjeti *Ashot II of Tao Kuropalates, King of Tao-Klarjeti 937–954 * Ashot the Immature (''Kukhi''), Eristavt Eristavi (died 918), King of Tao-Klarjeti *Ashot the Swift (died 939), Georgian prince * Ashot the Beautiful (died 867), Georgian prince Kings of Vaspurakan * Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan (died 991) * Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Shchusev
Alexey Victorovich Shchusev (; – 24 May 1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau (broadly construed), Constructivism (art), Constructivism, and Stalinist architecture, being one of the few Russian architects to be celebrated under both the House of Romanov, Romanovs and the communists, becoming the most decorated architect in terms of USSR State Prize, Stalin prizes awarded. In the 1900s, Shchusev established himself as a church architect, and developed his Modern architecture#Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914), proto-modernist style, which blended Art Nouveau with Russian Revival architecture. Immediately before and during World War I he designed and built railway stations for the Nikolai von Meck, von Meck family, notably the Moscow Kazansky railway station, Kazansky Rail Terminal in Moscow. After the October Revolution, Shchusev pragmatically supported the Bolsheviks, and was rew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Mizerov
Vadim (Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Slavic masculine given name derived from the Ruthenian word ''vaditi'' (), meaning ''to blame'' or as a diminutive of Vadimir. ''Dictionary of Russian Names''. : ; : Vadzim. Notable people with the name include: Mono ...
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Kudrinskaya Square
Kudrinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Verkhovazhsky District, Vologda Oblast Vologda Oblast (, ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The oblast has a population of 1,202,444 (Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census). The largest city is Cherepovets, t ..., Russia. The population was 48 as of 2002. Geography Kudrinskaya is located 31 km southwest of Verkhovazhye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Priluk is the nearest rural locality. References Rural localities in Verkhovazhsky District {{Verkhovazhsky-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Arbat Avenue
New Arbat Avenue () is a major street in Moscow running west from Arbatskaya Square on the Boulevard Ring to Novoarbatsky Bridge on the opposite bank of the Moskva (river). The modern eight-lane avenue (originally named Kalinin Prospekt in 1968–1994), along with two rows of high-rise buildings, was constructed between 1962 and 1968, and was literally cut through the old, narrow streets of the Arbat District. Within the Garden Ring A modern avenue running parallel to the picturesque Arbat Street was first envisioned in Joseph Stalin's 1935 Master Plan, however the project was delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War, and work did not begin until the late 1950s. The first stage of the project, the Novoarbatsky Bridge, was completed in 1957. Between 1957 and 1963, the city redeveloped land on the opposite (western) bank of the Moskva, creating the beginning of Kutuzovsky Prospekt, and completing the main part of New Arbat by 1968. The southern side of the avenue (exclud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Of Russia, Washington, D
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a Sovereign state, state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes an embassy or high commission, which is the main office of a country's Diplomacy, diplomatic representatives to another country; it is usually, but not necessarily, based in the receiving state's Capital (political), capital city. Consulates, on the other hand, are smaller diplomatic missions that are normally located in major cities of the receiving state (but can be located in the capital, typically when the sending country has no embassy in the receiving state). In addition to being a diplomatic mission to the country in which it is located, an embassy may also be a non-resident permanent mission to one or more other countries. The term embassy is sometimes used interchangeably with Chancery (diplomacy), chancery, the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Kremlin Palace
The State Kremlin Palace (), previously and unofficially known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский дворец съездов), is a large modern building inside the Moscow Kremlin. History The building was built at the initiative of Nikita Khrushchev as a modern arena for Communist Party meetings. The building replaced several heritage buildings, including the old neo-classical building of the Kremlin Armoury, State Armoury, and some of the back corpuses of the Great Kremlin Palace. This, and that the architecture of the projected building contrasted with the historic milieu resulted in quite an uproar, particularly after other historic buildings of the Kremlin, such as the Chudov Monastery, Chudov and Ascension Convent, Ascension cloisters, had already been demolished during the Stalin era and laws, that were introduced by the mid-1950s, prohibited the demolition of historic structures, making the construction in some ways illegal. The construction wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudrinskaya Square Building
The Kudrinskaya Square Building is a building in Moscow, one of Seven Sisters Of Moscow Stalinist skyscrapers, designed by Mikhail Posokhin () and Ashot Mndoyants (). Design and construction features The building was richly decorated but lacked a unified stylistic direction. The parapets are in the ancient Roman style. The lobbies decorated with marble columns, stained-glass windows, and lamps in the form of candelabra are a reminiscence of Gothic interiors. The pointed turrets around the spire resemble the domes of an Eastern Orthodox church. On the roof of the stylobate, there are sculptural portraits of Soviet workers and soldiers. One of the stylistic features of the building were the stained glass windows, which are located in the halls above the lifts and the windows of the deli. Motifs from Russian folk culture were used in the design. The floors in the living rooms and corridors of the flats were laid with oak parquet, the bathrooms were tiled with metal tiles, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Architect Of The USSR
People's Architect of the USSR (), also sometimes translated as National Architect of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to architects of the Soviet Union; it was established on August 12, 1967 by Leonid Brezhnev. It was bestowed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR owing proposals addressed by the ''State Construction Committee'' or by the ''Soviet Architects' Union''. The Supreme Soviet could possibly refuse these designations. A diploma of the Supreme Soviet's presidency was given to those who were appointed ''People's Architect of the USSR'' jointly with the medal and its concerning certificate. The title was bestowed upon architects who had achieved significant results in Soviet architecture's development either applying their expertise and creativity to the urban planning or to the design of important building compounds for civil, industrial or rural use. Following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991), by a decree of the Russian presidency, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
