Viktor Vesnin
title: "Viktor Vesnin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1882-births", "1950-deaths", "people-from-ivanovo-oblast", "academicians-of-the-ussr-academy-of-architecture", "academic-staff-of-bauman-moscow-state-technical-university", "full-members-of-the-ussr-academy-of-sciences", "first-convocation-members-of-the-soviet-of-nationalities", "second-convocation-members-of-the-soviet-of-nationalities", "recipients-of-the-order-of-lenin", "recipients-of-the-order-of-the-red-banner-of-labour", "recipients-of-the-royal-gold-medal", "architects-from-the-russian-empire", "constructivist-architects", "modernist-architects", "soviet-avant-garde", "soviet-architects", "burials-at-novodevichy-cemetery"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vesnin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Viktor Vesnin |
| image | File:Viktor Vesnin portrait by unknown.jpg |
| nationality | Russian |
| birth_date | April 9, 1882 |
| birth_place | Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
| death_date | September 17, 1950 |
| death_place | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| practice | Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board |
| significant_buildings | DnieproGES |
| significant_projects | Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square |
| birth_name | Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin |
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| name = Viktor Vesnin | image = File:Viktor Vesnin portrait by unknown.jpg | nationality = Russian | birth_date = April 9, 1882 | birth_place = Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = September 17, 1950 | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | practice = Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board | significant_buildings = DnieproGES | significant_projects = Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square | awards = | birth_name = Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; April 9, 1882 – September 17, 1950), was a Russian and Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers Leonid (1880–1933) and Alexander (1883–1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the Vesnin brothers. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.
Selected work
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- 1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
- 1927-1932 DnieproGES, with Nikolai Kolli
- 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow
- 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
- 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow
- 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
- 1922-23 Palace of Labor project
- 1915 Sirotkin House, Nizhny Novgorod
- 1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin)
References
References
- {{archINFORM. arch. 8971
- [http://www.utopia.ru/english/item.phtml?id=191&type=graphics&sortby=view&start=0 www.utopia.ru]
- Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133, {{ISBN. 5-98051-011-7
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