Felix Aronovich Novikov (, 3 August 1927 – 18 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian architect. In 1991, he was awarded the honorary title of

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, becoming the last awardee of the title. His architectural projects span the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. The earlier ones belong to the mainstream tradition of the Soviet architecture, however, starting from the 1960s, Novikov's projects became innovative. His main projects included Krasnopresnenskaya metro station (1954, together with Victor Yegerev, M. Konstantinov, and I. Pokrovsky), residential buildings on embankments of the Yauza (1950s, together with Yegerev and Pokrovsky), and the building of the Palace of Young Pioneers, all in Moscow. Novikov died in

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on 18 August 2022, at the age of 95.

Literature

* Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 4. Modernized Socialist Realism: 1955–1991. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2022. P.53. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Novikov, Felix 1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Russian architects Soviet architects Soviet urban planners Russian urban planners Recipients of the USSR State Prize Architects from Baku