Militsa Ivanovna Prokhorova

Militsa Ivanovna Prokhorova ( Russian Милица Ивановна Прохорова ; * 1907 in the former Novogireevo dacha settlement in the eastern administrative district of Moscow ; † 1959 in Moscow ) was a Soviet landscape architect .

Life

The engineering daughter Prokhorova began studying in Moscow in 1924 in the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops , which in 1927 became the Higher Artistic-Technical Institute . She completed her studies in 1928, particularly with Konstantin Stepanowitsch Melnikow and Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Ladowski . She was a member of the ASNOWA architectural group .

After graduating, Prokhorova began to work in the project planning workshop at the Central Maxim Gorky Park for Culture and Recreation (ZPKiO) at the invitation of Melnikov . Under the direction of El Lissitzky and then Melnikows, she carried out work for the ZPKiO from 1929–1932 together with Mikhail Petrovich Korschew and other architects. As a member of the ZPKiO brigade , she planned the further design of the ZPKiO in 1931. She then worked in the state green space construction company Goselenstroi and from 1935 in the planning department of the Mos Soviet .

Prokhorova was buried in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Projects

• Park for Culture and Recreation (PKiO) and City Garden in Chelyabinsk (1931 with LS Saleskaja)
• PKiO in Minsk (1932 with Saleskaja, Korschew and LJ Rosenberg)
• Park in Voronezh (1933 with Korschew)
• ZPKiO in Tula (1932–1950s)
• Planning for the Central Stadium of the USSR in the Moscow district of Izmailovo
• General plan for the park on Moscow's Lenin Mountains (1935 with VI Dolganov)
• General plan for the Izmailovo-Stalin-PKiO (1932–1948 with Korschew)
• Planning and greening of the Krasnopresnenja PKiO in Moscow (1938)
• General plan for Kuskovo Park in the Veshnyaki district of Moscow (with JS Grinewizki)
• Greening of the grounds of the Moscow All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition (1939 with other architects)
• Greening of Moscow's Arbat Square (1943)
• Greening of the grounds of the Lomonossow University in Moscow on the Lenin Mountains (1950–1953 with Korschew)
• Greening of the square in front of the Moscow Conservatory with the Tchaikovsky Monument (1954)
• Planning of the Khlebnikov forest park on the Klyasmin reservoir (1957)
• Greening of the Moskva swimming pool (1958)

Web links

• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Прохорова, Милица Ивановна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Gardener.Ru: Прохорова Милица Ивановна (accessed April 3, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tramwai Iskusstw: Прохорова Милица Ивановна (accessed April 4, 2020).
3. ↑ Vronskaya, Alla G .: Urbanist Landscape: Militsa Prokhorova, Liubov 'Zalesskaia, and the Emergence of Soviet Landscape Architecture . In: Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture . Routledge , 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-55655-8 , pp. 61 ( [1] [accessed April 4, 2020]).
4. ↑ Espegel, C .: Women Architects in the Modern Movement . Taylor & Francis , 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-74526-0 , pp. 113 .