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Boris Iofan

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Boris Mihailovich Iofan (p; April 28, 1891–1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. [1]

28 relations: Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Alexander I of Russia, Alexander III of Russia, Barvikha, Baumanskaya (Moscow Metro), Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Central Clinical Hospital, Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Grekov Odessa Art school, House on the Embankment, Italy, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Lev Rudnev, Main building of Moscow State University, Neoclassicism, Odessa, Operation Barbarossa, Palace of the Soviets, People's Architect of the USSR, Pyotr Kapitsa, Rome, Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Soviet Union, Stalinist architecture, Stripped Classicism, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy.

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Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I (Александр Павлович, Aleksandr Pavlovich; –) reigned as Emperor of Russia between 1801 and 1825.

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Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III (r; 1845 1894) was the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from until his death on.

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Barvikha

Barvikha (Барви́ха) is a village in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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Baumanskaya (Moscow Metro)

Baumanskaya (Бауманская) is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, named after the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman.

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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Храм Христа Спасителя, Khram Khrista Spasitelya) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin.

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Central Clinical Hospital

The Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (Центральная клиническая больница c поликлиникой Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации) (also called "Kremlin Hospital", "Kremlyovka" and the "Kremlin Clinic") is a heavily guarded facility seven miles northwest of the Kremlin in an exclusive, wooded suburban area known as Kuntsevo.

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Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne

The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France.

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Grekov Odessa Art school

The Grekov Odessa Art school (Одеське художнє училище імені М. Б. Грекова, Оде́сское худо́жественное учи́лище имени М. Б. Гре́кова; abbreviated ОХУ) is an institution of secondary education in Odessa, Ukraine.

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House on the Embankment

The House on the Embankment (Дом на набережной) is a block-wide apartment building on the banks of the Moskva on Balchug in downtown Moscow, Russia.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Lev Rudnev

Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (Лев Владимирович Ру́днев; – November 19, 1956) was a Soviet architect, and a leading practitioner of Stalinist architecture.

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Main building of Moscow State University

The Main building of Moscow State University (in Russian Гла́вное зда́ние МГУ), designed by Lev Rudnev, is the highest of seven Stalinist skyscrapers of Moscow.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Odessa

Odessa (Оде́са; Оде́сса; אַדעס) is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Palace of the Soviets

The Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Russian Federation) near the Kremlin, on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

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People's Architect of the USSR

People's Architect of the USSR (Народный архитектор СССР), also sometimes translated as National Architect of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to architects of the Soviet Union; it was established on August 12, 1967 by Leonid Brezhnev.

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Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца, Romanian: Petre Capiţa (– 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy

Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (full name in Russian: Российский государственный аграрный университет — МСХА имени К.А. Тимирязева) is one of the oldest agrarian educational institutions in Russia.

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Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE) (Российский государственный университет физической культуры, спорта, молодёжи и туризма (ГЦОЛИФК)) is a university in Moscow, founded in 1918.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture, also referred to as Stalinist Empire style or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture.

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Stripped Classicism

Stripped Classicism (or "Starved Classicism" or "Grecian Moderne") Jstor is primarily a 20th-century classicist architectural style stripped of most or all ornamentation, frequently employed by governments while designing official buildings.

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Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Рабо́чий и колхо́зница Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Iofan

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