Lev Alexandrovich Soskin

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Lev Alexandrowitsch Soskin ( Russian Лев Александрович Соскин , scientific transliteration Lev Aleksandrovič Soskin , also Leo Alexandrowitsch Soskin ; * 1934 ) is a Russian architect and university professor .

Life

Lev Alexandrowitsch Soskin studied at the Ural Polytechnic in Sverdlovsk . From 1959 to 1964 he worked in Sverdlovsk, including for the Sverdlovsk Design Institute for Civil Building and Urban Planning ( Russian Свердоблпроект ).

From 1964 to 1967 Soskin was the chief architect of the "Kaliningrad Project Planning Institute for Civil Construction and the Planning and Construction of Cities and Settlements" (Kaliningradgrashdan Project; Russian Калининградгражданпроект ). The sports palace “Junost” ( Russian Юность ; German: youth) in Kaliningrad was built according to Soskin's designs.

Like Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Chodakowski, Soskin was in favor of a reconstruction of the Königsberg Palace .

From 1967 to 1971 he worked at the Minsk Project Planning Institute for Civil Construction and Urban Planning ( Russian Минскпроект ). He has lived in Moscow since 1971. He was a professor at the International Academy of Architecture .

literature

  • Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada: How Königsberg became Kaliningrad (=  materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe . Volume 1 ). Herder Institute, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87969-375-7 .
  • Bert Hoppe: On the ruins of Königsberg. Kaliningrad 1946–1970 (=  series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Volume 80 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-64580-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Podehl, p. 84.
  2. Hoppe, p. 138.
  3. "Kaliningradski projektny institute graschdanskowo stroitelstwa, planirowki i sastroiki gorodow i posselkow; Russian Калининградский проектный институт гражданского строительства, планировки и застройки горовосев горопов икел подов ; German: Kaliningrad Project Planning Institute for Civil Construction and the Planning and Construction of Cities and Settlements "
  4. Podehl, pp. 329-330
  5. a b biography of the architect Lev Soskin. In: Large Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kaliningrad Oblast
  6. Podehl, pp. 329-330