Lyubov Dmitrievna Ussova

Lyubov Dmitrijewna Ussowa ( Russian Любовь Дмитриевна Усова ; born September 6, 1921 in Irkutsk ; † January 2, 2015 ) was a Soviet - Belarusian architect .

Life

In the 1930s the family moved to Moscow . After attending school, Ussowa studied at the Moscow Architecture Institute (MArchI). During the German-Soviet war she was evacuated with the MArchI in Tashkent . The students studied four days a week and worked three days in an ammunition factory. With others, Ussowa was chosen to measure architectural monuments in Bukhara and later in Samarkand . There she met Vasily Iossifowitsch Gerashchenko (1912–1990) know. In the spring of 1944 Ussowa returned to Moscow and married Vasily Iossifowitsch Gerashchenko. In 1947, at the end of her studies, she defended her diploma project with distinction.

After graduation, Ussova was sent to work in Minsk, in the architectural and planning office of the Executive Committee of the City of Minsk, where her husband worked.

Together with A. Voinov, Ussova designed the Belarusian Republican Theater of Young Audiences, the Palace of Pioneers and the building of the District Committee of the KPW (now the CIS Executive Committee). Together with L. Ryminski, she designed and restored the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (now Belarusian Technical University). She carried out work for schools and kindergartens. With her husband, she projected residences in Raion of the Minsk railway station square and for workers of MotoWeloSawod and apartment buildings for works of power industry .

Ussowa participated in the construction of the square at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Victory Park and restored the Maxim Gorky Children's Park. In the 1970s she took part in solving the problems of the Minsk drainage . In particular, she took on the design of the water cascade with the Drosdy and Kriniza reservoirs of the Swislatsch and developed projects for the detailed planning of the north-west and south-east part of the water-green strip through Minsk and the east and south banks of the Saslaujer reservoir and of the Vyacha reservoir.

In 1990 Ussova retired.

Honors, prizes

Certificate of Honor of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (WSSR)

Certificate of Honor from the Minsk Project Institute

Certificates of honor of the Union of Architects of the USSR and the Union of Architects of the WSSR

Works

6 Kirawa Street (1940-1950), Minsk
Building of the CIS Executive Committee
Belarusian Technical University
Minsk Gate on Bahnhofplatz (1947–1956 with B. Rubanenko, L. Golubowski, A. Karabelnikow and W. Geraschtschenko)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Фондовый каталог государственных архивов Республики Беларусь: Усова Любовь Дмистикиевна,. - архитектор (accessed February 21, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b Автор многих знаковых зданий Минска архитектор Любовь Усова ушла из жизни 2 января (accessed February 21, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Белстройцентр: Кариатида градостроительства: Любовь Усова (accessed February 21, 2020).
↑ Архитектор Любовь Усова: "Когда иду по улицам города и смотрю на здания, словно общаюсь на здания, словно общаюсь on February 21, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Ussowa, Lyubow Dmitrijewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Усова, Любовь Дмитриевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet-Belarusian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Irkutsk
DATE OF DEATH	2nd January 2015

[archiv-1] Фондовый каталог государственных архивов Республики Беларусь: Усова Любовь Дмистикиевна,. - архитектор (accessed February 21, 2020).

[sbby-2] Автор многих знаковых зданий Минска архитектор Любовь Усова ушла из жизни 2 января (accessed February 21, 2020).

[bel1-3] Белстройцентр: Кариатида градостроительства: Любовь Усова (accessed February 21, 2020).

[4] Архитектор Любовь Усова: "Когда иду по улицам города и смотрю на здания, словно общаюсь на здания, словно общаюсь on February 21, 2020.