Aschot Aschotowitsch Mndojanz

Ashot Ashotovich Mndojanz ( Russian Ашот Ашотович Мндоянц * December 28, 1909 ^{. Jul} / 10. January  1910 ^greg. In Batumi , Russian Empire ; † 29. September 1966 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Russian-Soviet architect and urban planner who with Michail Possochin and other architects designed a large number of large projects in Moscow. While they were designing their first projects in the style of socialist classicism , their architectural language changed to modernity in the 1960s .

Life

Mndojanz studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Fine Arts and at the Institute for Civil Engineers and Civil Engineers in Odessa (1928 to 1932). From 1932 to 1935 he worked in Batumi, where he was the city's chief architect from 1934 to 1935. Then he went to Moscow. There he worked under Alexei Shchusev .

Main administrative building of the Comecon (1970)

In 1941 he took part in the construction of defenses in Moscow. In 1945 he was involved in the reconstruction of the Moscow City Hall . In the 1960s he worked with Mikhail Possochin on various major projects in Moscow.

He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow after his death in 1966 .

Works (selection)

• 1948–54 (with Mikhail Possochin and others): House on Kudrinskaya Square
• 1960–61 (with Mikhail Possochins and others): State Kremlin Palace
• 1964-69 (with Mikhail Possochins and others): high-rise buildings on Kalinin Prospect (completed posthumously)
• 1964-70 (with Michail Possochins and other): General Administration Building of the CMEA (postum completed)
• 1967 (with Michail Possochins and others): Soviet pavilion at Expo 67 (completed posthumously)

Awards

• 1949: Second Stalin Prize for a 16-story building on Vosstaniya Square
• 1962: Lenin Prize for the design of the State Kremlin Palace
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Two badges of honor from the Soviet Union
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow"

Web links

• Aschot Aschotowitsch Mndojanz in the Great Russian Encyclopedia