Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bykowa

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bykova ( Russian Надежда Александровна Быкова ; born November 1 ^{. Jul} / 14. November  1907 ^greg. In Serpukhov , † 1997 in Moscow ) was a Soviet architect .

Life

Bykowa was the daughter of a country doctor . When she wanted to study medicine after graduating from school in 1925 , she was assigned to the Moscow Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops . There she studied in Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Ladowski's architecture class, graduating in 1930.

After graduating, Bykowa worked for GIPROGOR (chief architect Grigori Borissowitsch Barchin ). In an architect collective together with Lidija Konstantinowna Komarowa , Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Chechulin and others, she developed standard projects for the construction of houses, schools, hospitals and others

In 1932 Bykowa became an engineer on the metro project . She and her husband, the architect Ivan Georgievich Taranov , won the first competition for the Moscow Metro projects with the project for the Sokolniki station on the Sokolnicheskaya line , which opened in 1935. As a result , she planned the construction of 10 stations for the Moscow Metro, 9 of them together with her husband, with more and more architects and engineers involved. The collective also included Lyubov Alexandrowna Shagurina , Juri Alexandrowitsch Rewkowski , Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Andrikanis and Jakow Grigorjewitsch Lichtenberg under the direction of Samuil Mironowitsch Krawez . 1938–1939 she and her husband designed the Mechanizazija Pavilion for the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow, which in 1950 became the Kosmos Pavilion .

Honors, prizes

• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1938)
• Order of the Red Star (1943)
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Stalin Prize (1952) for the architecture of the Belorusskaya metro station on the Kolzewaya line

Works

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  Sokolniki Station, Sokolnicheskaya Line (opened in 1935, with Taranov)

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  Belorusskaya station, Samoskvorezkaya line (opened in 1938, with Andrikanis)

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  Novokuznetskaya station, Samoskvorezkaya line (opened in 1943, with Taranov)

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  Belorusskaya station , Kolzewaya line (opened in 1954, with Taranow)

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  Western entrance hall of Belorusskaya station, Kolzewaya line (opened in 1954, with Taranov)

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  Sportivnaya Station, Sokolnicheskaya Line (opened in 1957, with Taranov)

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  VDNKh station , Kalushsko-Rishskaya line (opened in 1958, with Taranov)

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  South entrance hall of the University Station, Sokolnicheskaya Line (opened in 1959, with Taranov)

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  Izmailovskaya station, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (opened in 1961, with Taranov)

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  Shcholkovskaya station, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (opened in 1963, with Taranov)

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  Prospekt Vernadskovo Station, Sokolnicheskaya Line (opened in 1963, with Taranov)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} N. Bykowa: HЕ «ПОДЗЕМКА», а ПОДЗЕМHЫЕ ДВОРЦЫ (accessed on March 26, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Tramwai Iskusstw: Быкова Надежда Александровна (1907–1997) (accessed March 26, 2020).
3. ↑ Union of Moscow Architects: Три поколения дома Тарановых (accessed March 26, 2020).