Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev

Lev Wladimirowitsch Rudnew ( Russian Лев Владимирович Руднев ; * March 1 ^July / March 13,  1885 ^greg. In Veliky Novgorod ; † November 19, 1956 in Moscow ) was a Russian architect and a representative of socialist classicism .

Life

Rudnew was born in the city of Opochka (other sources say Veliky Novgorod ) into a family of school teachers. He attended a grammar school in Riga and graduated from the Petersburg Art Academy in Saint Petersburg (1906). At the academy he studied painting with Leonti Benois and architecture with Iwan Fomin . In 1915 Rudnew graduated as an art architect.

After the February Revolution , Rudnev won the competition for the Monument to the Victims of the Revolution on the Field of Mars in Petrograd (March 1917). The avant-garde monument there was built according to his project. 1922–1948 Rudnew was a professor at the Art Academy in Leningrad, then 1948–1952 professor at the Moscow Institute of Architecture . One of his students was Oleg L. Lyalin . Rudnew was also a member of the Soviet Academy of Architecture .

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Main building of Lomonosov University , Rudnew was the chief architect

He was the planner of many large projects, often described as pompously monumental, including:

• Military Academy "MW Frunze" Moscow (1939)
• Administration building on Schaposhnikov Street (1934–1938)
• Administration building on Frunse-Damm (1938–1955)
• Main building of Lomonosov University (1949–1953), probably his best-known building, Stalin Prize 1949
• Government building of the Azerbaijan SSR in Baku (completed in 1952)
• Palace of Culture (Warsaw) (1952–1955)
• High-rise of the Science Academy (Riga) (1952–1955)

Web links

Commons : Lev Rudnev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lomonosov University in Moscow (Russia)
• Biography and Works (Russian)
• Architect of the main building of Moscow University (Russian)
• Biography (russian)
• Works (russian)