Volodymyr Sabolotnyj

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Volodymyr Hnatowytsch Sabolotnyj ( Ukrainian Володимир Гнатович Заболотний , Russian Владимир Игнатьевич Заболотный Vladimir Ignatievich Sabolotnyj ; born August 1 jul. / 13 August  1898 greg. In Karan , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; †  3. August 1962 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet architect, founder and from 1945 to 1956 president of the Academy of Architecture of Ukraine , one of the designers of the building project of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

Life

Volodymyr Sabolotnyj was born in the village of Karan ( Карань ), which is now part of the city of Pereyaslav in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev . He graduated from high school in 1919, in the middle of the Russian Civil War in Perejaslav, and from 1921 studied with Dmitri Djatschenko ( Дмитрий Михайлович Дяченко , 1887–1942) at the Ukrainian Institute of Architecture in Kiev, which merged in 1924 with the Institute of Fine Arts to form the Kiev Art Institute . He also studied design with Pavlo Aljoschyn ( Павло Федотович Альошин , 1881–1961), a follower of classicism and a student of the St. Petersburg Art Academy . During his student days he also took part in architectural competitions for the Palace of Culture in Rostov-on-Don (1925) and the Kiev film studios (1926). He successfully completed his studies in 1927, received the title of architect and became a lecturer at the Kiev Art Institute. At the same time he started to work independently. His first works were competitive projects for the government palace of the USSR (5th prize) and a residential area in Kharkiv.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s he taught architectural design at both the Kiev Art Institute and the Kiev Engineering and Construction Institute, now the National University of Construction and Architecture in Kiev. At the same time, he was the main architect of the State Institute of Urban Development DIPROMIST ( ДІПРОМІСТ ), where the concept of a socialist city was developed. His second creative phase was in the second half of the 1930s to the first half of the 1940s. His best work during this time was the Kiev Verkhovna Rada , for the successful completion of which he received the honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR and a cash prize. Between 1939 and 1941 he worked as chief architect of the city of Kiev.

He was evacuated during the German-Soviet War . Shortly after the liberation of Kiev from German occupation, he returned to Ukraine and the third phase of his creative activity began. Large parts of Kiev were destroyed and the Ukrainian architects were faced with the task of rebuilding. In 1945, on his initiative and under his direction, the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR was founded in Kiev, of which he was president from 1945 to 1956. In 1956 the Academy of Architecture was reorganized into the Academy of Architecture and Construction of the USSR, of which he became a full member. In addition, Sabolotnyj was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Artists of Ukraine, founded in 1925, and the Association of Modern Architects . From 1957 he headed the department for Ukrainian art history at the academy , which was founded on his initiative .

Grave of Volodymyr Sabolotnyj in the Kiev Baikowe Cemetery

Sabolotnyj died in Kiev at the age of 63 and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery . A monumental monument was erected on his grave and the museum of the academic V. Sabolotnyj was established in his hometown of Pereyaslav in his father's house . Volodymyr Sabolotnyj was the author of several works on architecture, such as the book "Monuments for the Architecture of Ukraine" from 1954.

Honors

Volodymyr Sabolotnyj received numerous honors and awards: Among them:

Web links

Commons : Wolodymyr Sabolotnyj  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Wolodymyr Sabolotnyj in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Volodymyr Sabolotnyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Wolodymyr Sabolotnyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Entry on Volodymyr Sabolotnyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Sabolotnyj, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabolotnyj, Volodymyr Hnatowytsch (full name); Заболотний, Володимир Гнатович (Ukrainian); Заболотный, Владимир Игнатьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Karan , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1962
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR