Nikolai Dzhemovich Kolli

Nikolai Dschemsowitsch (Yakovlevich) Kolli ( Russian Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли * August 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th August  1894 ^greg. In Moscow , † 3. December 1966 ) was a Russian architect and university lecturer .

Life

Kolli studied architecture from 1912 to 1922, first at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and then at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops (WChuTeMas) . As a student, he worked with AW Shtusev on the project for the Kazan train station from 1913 to 1915 . He became famous for his proposal for the monument to the victory of the Red Army over General Krasnov in the form of a red wedge that splits a block of white stone. El Lissitzky took this picture in his poster Hit the Whites with the Red Wedge .

Zentro Soyuz building in Moscow

In 1923 Kolli worked under the direction of IW Sholtovsky as one of his twelve disciples on the project of the Moscow All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition (predecessor of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy ). From 1924 he taught at the Bauman Technical University in Moscow (until 1941). He was a member of the OSA group and a delegate at the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne .

1927-1932 Kolli belonged to the group of architects led by WA Wesnin that the DneproGes Dam and the new city Sotsgorod in Zaporozhye projected . He developed designs for the Great Stone Bridge and the Novoarbatsky Bridge in Moscow. Together with Le Corbusier , he designed the ZentroSojus building of the cooperative association in Moscow from 1928 to 1932 in Paris and Moscow. From 1931 he also taught at the Moscow Architecture Institute (until 1941).

Kirovskaya metro station in Moscow

From 1933 Kolli headed the Architecture Project Workshop No. 9, the Moscow. Central Stalin - the stadium , the Moscow metro stations Smolenskaya , Park Kultury (1935), Kirovskaya (1935, now Chistye Prudy) and Paveletskaya projected (1950). 1935–1951 he headed the Moscow Department of the Union of Architects.

During and after the German-Soviet war , Kolli worked out plans for the reconstruction of Kalinin (from 1944), Minsk (1945) and Riga (1946). Together with ID Meltschakow , Kolli created the Kalinin tomb.

Kolli was buried in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article Kolli Nikolai Dzhemovich in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D037448~2a%3DKolli%20Nikolai%20Dschemsowitsch~2b%3DKolli%20Nikolai%20Dschemsowitsch
2. ↑ Great Russian Encyclopedia: Kolli Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Russian, Moscow 2009).
3. ↑ Kolli, Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Iakovlevich) (accessed November 14, 2016).
4. ↑ Е. А. Тарасова: Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли (1894–1966) in: Мастера советской архитектуруы об архитектрур . Искусство, Moscow 1975, p. 349-363 .
5. ↑ Советская архитектура . 18th edition. Искусство, 1969.
6. ↑ Le Corbusier's Tsentrosoiuz building in Moscow (1928-1936) over the years (accessed November 14, 2016).
7. ↑ Многострадальная станция (accessed November 14, 2016).
8. ↑ Проспект для рабочих ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 14, 2016). 

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