Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; April 9, 1882 – September 17, 1950), was a Russian and Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers

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(1880–1933) and

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(1883–1959) emerged as leaders of

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, the ''Vesnin brothers''. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.

Selected work

*1934

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Project *1927-1932 DnieproGES, with Nikolai Kolli *1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow *1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow *1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow *1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project *1922-23 Palace of Labor project *1915 Sirotkin House,

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*1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin) Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133,

References

External links

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin, photographs

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