Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Born	April 9, 1882 Yuryevets
Died	September 17, 1950 Moscow
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board
Buildings	DnieproGES
Projects	Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Russian:Виктор Александрович Веснин, 1882–1950), was a Russian Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in 1920's, 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

Mostorg department store, 1928

• 1934 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)