Vyazemsky S.M. (1895-1983, Leningrad), regional ethnographer

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VYAZEMSKY Sergey Mikhailovich (1895-1983, Leningrad), collector, regional ethnographer, and historian. He graduated from the Economics Department of Tashkent Institute (1925). He lived in Leningrad since 1931, and in 1931-58 taught at Textile Institute, survived the Siege of Leningrad. Since the 1950s, he collected materials on the city (clippings from newspapers, magazines, books, documents, memoirs, diaries, etc.), arranging them according to their topics: architecture and urban planning, history of manufactories, churches and monasteries, personalia, etc. In 1971 he gave his collection (over 3,400 files) to Leningrad State Art and Literature Archives. Vyazemsky took part in developing a number of guidebooks and reference books, and compiled atlases of Leningrad history and geography (1977). In 1959-83, he headed the Council for assistance to the Museum of Leningrad History, initiated and administered the work of the section on the study of Leningrad streets and districts. Vyazemsky was also a secretary of Streets Designation Committee under the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Soviet, and worked for the Society for Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. He lived at 14 Second Sovetskaya Street.

References: Блинов А. М. С. В. Вяземский - собиратель, краевед и историк города: (К 100-летию со дня рождения) // Краеведческие записки: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1995. Вып. 3. С. 87-95.

O. A. Chekanova. Vyazemsky Sergey Mikhailovich
2nd Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Блинов А. М. С.В. Вяземский - собиратель, краевед и историк города: (К 100-летию со дня рождения) // Краеведческие записки: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1995 Siege of 1941-44
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