Fomin I.I. (1904 - 1989), architect

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FOMIN Igor Ivanovich (1904-1989, Leningrad), an architect, People's Architect of the USSR (1971), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1979). Son of I.A. Fomin. Graduated from the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1926), Professor of Architecture, headed a studio, Academician (1956). From 1940, lectured in the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. An author of large public and residential buildings: in the 1930s, constructed the building of Moskovsky District Soviet (129 Moskovsky Avenue), Apartment Houses at 8 Petrovskaya Embankment and 13 Karpovka River Embankment, building of Volodarsky District Soviet (163 Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue); in the 1950s - Okhtenskaya Prorezka, Apartment Houses at 15 and 17 Suvorovsky Avenue, reconstruction of the office block at 68 Nevsky Prospect and the Ploschad Vosstaniya metro station. Since the late 1960s he supervised designing and construction of Leningrad State University complex in Old Peterhof. Buried in the Bogoslovskoe Cemetery.

References: Вайтенс А. Г. Игорь Фомин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХХ век. СПб., 2000. С. 293-311.

V. G. Isachenko. Fomin Igor Ivanovich
Fomin Ivan Alexandrovich
Karpovka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 129
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 68
Obukhovskoy Oborony Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 163
Petrovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Вайтенс А. Г. Игорь Фомин // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, ХХ век. СПб., 2000 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery