Vladimir Alexeyevich Shchuko

Bust of Shchuko at his grave in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Vladimir Shchuko ( Russian Владимир Алексеевич Щуко * July 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th July  1878 ^{. Greg} in Tambov , † 19th January 1939 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet artists of the first four decades of the 20th century, mainly became known as an architect .

Shchuko began as a representative of Russian neoclassicism , turned to the ideas of modernism after the Russian civil war , and later, like Vladimir Helreich, became an exponent of socialist classicism with a Stalinist stamp .

Important works are the statue of Lenin in front of the St. Petersburg Finnish train station (1926 with Sergei Jewsejew ), the first expansion stage of the Moscow Lenin Library (winning the tender in 1928, built according to modified plans 1930ff, with Helreich), the Great Stone Bridge (1935–1938 with Helreich and Michail Minkus ) and the station of the Moscow metro Elektrosawodskaja (draft 1938 with Helreich and Igor Roschin , completed posthumously in 1944/45).

He also worked together with Helreich on the design of the Palace of the Soviets , both of whom had been appointed assistants to Boris Iofan in 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Penelope Curtis: Sculpture 1900-1945: after Rodin ; Oxford University Press, USA: 1999, ISBN 0192842285 , p. 61.
2. ↑ Proschloje - Istorija kompleksa sdani , http://leninka.ru/ (Russian, accessed February 8, 2010).
3. ↑ Info booklet on the reopening of the metro station Elektrosawodskaja 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian, PDF)  
4. ↑ Konstantin Akinsha, Grigoriĭ Kozlov, Sylvia Hochfield: The holy place: architecture, ideology, and history in Russia , Yale University Press: 2007, ISBN 0300110278 , p. 134.

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Alexeyevich Shchuko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Article Vladimir Alexejewitsch Schchuko in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D125044~2a%3D~2b%3DWladimir%20Alexejewitsch%20Schtschuko