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| Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky | |
| Personal Information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Birth date | 1880 |
| Birth place | Moscow |
| Date of death | 1966 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Work | |
| Significant Buildings | Hotel Ukraina (with Arkady Mordvinov, 1947-1957) |
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky (Russian: Вячеслав Константинович Олтаржевский, 1880-1966) was a Russian Soviet architect. He was one of the first Soviet experts in skyscraper construction, notable for his collaboration with Arkady Mordvinov on Hotel Ukraina (Moscow).
[edit] Biography
Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was born in a family of a government officer in Moscow. He studied architecture at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1901-1908) and in Vienna under Otto Wagner (1905). He assisted older architects Ivan Rerberg, Illarion Ivanov-Shitz and Marian Peretyatkovich, and completed his first independent commission in 1909.
In 1924-1934, Oltarzhevsky lived in United States with an official mission to study and evaluate modern construction technology, becoming the leading Soviet expert in highrise steel frame construction.
In 1935, Oltarzhevsky was appointed to be the chief architect of All-Russia Exhibition Centre; in April, 1936 his master plan was officially approved. By 1938, Oltarzhevsky completed most of this plan, notably the Mechanisatsia stepped tower, a predecessor of late stalinist architecture towers. The fall of Comissar for Agriculture, Mikhail Chernov, arrested in 1938 for Bukharin conspiracy, caused a domino effect in the Comissariat for Agriculture which supervised the Exhibition. Oltarzhevsky was arrested, too, but spared from death penalty and served in labor camps until 1943. Meanwhile, his work at the Exhibition was branded alien art; some of his buildings were torn down and rebuilt from scratch.
After World War II, Oltarzhevsky was assigned to the Moscow Skyscraper Project. His own plans were discarded, because all jobs were awarded in advance to most influential Soviet architects. Oltarzhevsky joined Arkady Mordvinov on his Hotel Ukraina skyscraper in Dorogomilovo District; both architects were awarded Stalin Prize in 1948 for conceptual drafts, before actual construction began.
Before Ukraina was completed, Oltarzhevsky compiled his "Skyscraper Construction in Moscow ("Строительство высотных зданий в Москве", 1953), which remains a principal information source on late stalinist highrise project.
[edit] External links
- Skyscraper draft by Oltarzhevsky, 1947 www.muar.ru
