Elena Alexandrovna Opolovnikova

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Jelena Alexandrovna Opolownikowa ( Russian Елена Александровна Ополовникова ; born January 7, 1943 in Moscow , † June 23, 2011 in Serpukhov ) was a Soviet - Russian architect , monument protector and university teacher .

Life

Opolownikowas father was the architect and restorer Alexander Viktorovich Opolownikow (1911-1994). Her mother, Nina Viktorovna, born Velichkina (1914–1977), was the daughter of the architect Viktor Andreevich Velichkin .

After graduating from high school with honors, Opolownikowa studied at the Moscow Architecture Institute (MArchI), graduating with honors in 1966. Her diploma thesis project with a plan for the Baksan Valley received the prize of the Union of Architects of the USSR .

In 1974 Opolownikowa successfully defended her candidate dissertation on the planning of ski resorts .

From 1977 Opolownikova worked in the Scientific Council for the Protection of Monuments at the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. She noted the architectural monuments in the Yaroslavl and Ivanovo Oblasts .

From 1980 Opolownikowa was a permanent co-author of all the works of her father, who had to retire due to illness. Joint projects concerned the museum complex of the fortress Plesso in Pljos , the Ilimsk fortress in Ust-Ilimsk , the Nizhnekolymsk - Ostrog , the Alesei Ostrog and the church in Shatoba on the Alaseja , the Anjui fortress on the Anjui in Chukotka and in Salekhard the Obdorsk fortress with the reconstructed main tower of the Ostrog and the chapel with the Holy Gate in the old cemetery of the city where victims of the Great Terror were buried.

1986–1992 taught Opolownika wood construction at the middle school in Turowo near Serpuchow. She taught at the architecture faculties of universities in Ljubljana , Helsinki , Jakutsk and Kostroma . In 1991 she became co-founder and chief architect of the Opolo company . In 1997 she became a member of the Bureau and Chair of the Timber Construction Committee of the Russian Department of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). In 2002 she became a full member of the international academy The Northern Forum in Yakutsk and in 2003 professor of the International Academy of Architecture . She took part in international conferences on monument protection in Germany , Romania , Slovenia , Austria and Finland . At the ICOMOS conference in Mexico she reported on city legends of the Russian subpolar region from Kola to Kolyma .

In 2006, Opolownikowa rebuilt the Pokrovsk Church, which burned down in Anchimowo ( Rajon Wytegra ) in 1963, based on drawings by her father near St. Petersburg . In 2007 she reconstructed the wooden palace of Alexeis I in Kolomenskoye .

Opolownikowa was married to Valeri Alexandrowitsch Zyganow.

Founded in 1966 open-air museum Kizhi on the island of Kizhi in the Republic of Karelia led from 4 March to 9 May 2011, an exhibition on the 100th anniversary AW Opolownikows by, opened the Opolownikowa and then in the Moscow Shchusev wanted architecture museum show . Her sudden death prevented this.

Opolownikowa was buried in the Turowo cemetery near Serpukhov.

Honors, prizes

  • Prize of the Union of Architects of the USSR (1966)
  • Diploma of the Moscow Architectural Union for the contribution to the maintenance and dissemination of the legacy of AW Opolovnikov
  • Gold medal of the Russian Art Academy for books on subpolar city legends and old Russian timber construction
  • Prize of the Governor of Irkutsk Oblast for the book on Irkutsk Woodland
  • Merited Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation (2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ушла из жизни Елена Александровна ОПОЛОВНИКОВА (accessed on April 3, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c Архнадзор - Елена Александровна Ополовникова (accessed April 2, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Татьяна НИКОЛЮКИНА: Елена-воительница . In: Кижи . tape 79 , no. 6 , July 1, 2011 ( [1] [accessed April 3, 2020]).
  4. ^ Members of the Northern Forum (accessed April 2, 2020).
  5. ↑ Русское деревянное зодчество (accessed April 3, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Opolownikowa, Jelena Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ополовникова, Елена Александровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian architect and monument protector
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2011
Place of death Serpukhov