Sergei Grigoryevich Ginger () (1870 - 1937) was an

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and

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architect born in what is now

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. He designed several buildings in his native

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and in

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, where he was a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects. His work is representative of the Art Nouveau and neoclassical styles. Ginger was noted in particular for his residential buildings that occupy important sectors in the historic center of St. Petersburg and its suburbs, including

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and 53 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, although in his younger years he designed a number of major buildings in Chișinău, including the Kostyuzhenskoy Psychiatric Hospital (1894), and what is now Lyubavicheskaya Synagogue (1898). In 1934, during the

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, Ginger was sent to exile to

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, where he was subsequently arrested and executed in 1937.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ginger, Sergei Architects from Chișinău 1870 births 1937 deaths Architects from Saint Petersburg Art Nouveau architects Architects from the Russian Empire