Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (Russian: Лев Владимирович Руднев; 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1885-November 19, 1956) was a Russian architect, and a leading practitioner of Stalinist architecture.
Rudnev was born to the family of a school teacher in the town of Opochka (other sources state Novgorod). He graduated from the Riga Realschule (now the Riga 1st State Grammar School) and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (1906). At the Acad...
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Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (Russian: Лев Владимирович Руднев; 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1885-November 19, 1956) was a Russian architect, and a leading practitioner of Stalinist architecture.
Rudnev was born to the family of a school teacher in the town of Opochka (other sources state Novgorod). He graduated from the Riga Realschule (now the Riga 1st State Grammar School) and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (1906). At the Academy he studied painting under Leon Benois and architecture under Ivan Fomin. From 1911 Rudnev was a success in various architectural competitions, and in 1915 he became a certified specialist in the art of architecture.
After the February Revolution Rudnev won the competition for the Victims of the Revolution monument on the Field of Mars in Petrograd (March 1917). The avant-garde monument there was built according to his design.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War Lev Rudnev took active part in reconstructing the ruined cities of...
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