Lishnevsky A.L., (1868-1942), architect

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LISHNEVSKY Alexander Lvovich (1868-1942), architect, a noted Art Nouveau and Neoclassical artist. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1892, and worked in the Ukraine for some time. From 1901, he lived in St. Petersburg. His best-known work is the House of Municipal Establishments at 55-57 Sadovaya Street (1904-06) built in the Art Nouveau style. This building has been significant in city planning. Rational planning with romantic shapes is characteristic of the apartment houses at 91 and 125 Ligovsky Avenue, 5 Pryadilny Lane, 66 Maly Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side, 24 Lakhtinskaya Street, 21 Gatchinskaya Street, 31 Chkalovsky Avenue (all of them built in 1906-1914). As part of his commission from merchant S.Z. Iof, Lishnevsky built apartment houses at 47 Liteiny Avenue, 11 Belinskogo Street, 11 and 24 Zagorodny Avenue. He owned a house on 41 Shirokaya Street (present-day Lenina Street) built to his own designs. In the 1920s, he completed the building of the Mechnikov Memorial Hospital, in the 1930s he elaborated projects for residential-houses at 6-8 Eight Sovetskaya Street, 141 Nevsky Prospect, as well as the buildings of schools at 80 Moskovsky Avenue, 4 Rimskogo-Korsakova Avenue, 38-40 Voznesensky Avenue etc. In the 1930s, he was in charge of the workshop attached to Leningrad Institute of Residential Construction Design. Lishnevsky died being evacuated during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

References: Федоров С. Г. И образ, и функция: Страницы творч. биогр. А. Л. Лишневского // СиАЛ. 1980. № 6. С. 31-35; Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 1008-1009.

V. G. Isachenko. Iof Shneer Zalman
Lishnevsky Alexander Lvovich
Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich
8th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
8th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Belinskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Chkalovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
Gatchinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Lakhtinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 41
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 91
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 125
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Maly Ave of Petrogradskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city, house 66
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 80
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 141
Pryadilny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 38
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Федоров С. Г. И образ, и функция: Страницы творч. биографии А. Л. Лишневского // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1980
Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX – начало ХХ века. СПб., 1998 Art Nouveau
Neoclassicism
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts