Nikolai Kolli

Tsentrosoyuz building, Moscow,collaboration with Le Corbusier.

Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (; – 3 December 1966) was a Soviet and Russian architectural functionary, and city planner in the Soviet Union. Initially a Modernist—Constructivist architect, he later adopted socialist realism.

History Kolli (Coley) was born in Moscow in to a family of Scottish origin, and studied at the Imperial Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at the Leninist VKhUTEMAS in Moscow.

Works The works of Nikolai Kolli include: All-Russian Agricultural and Cottage-industry Exhibition, Moscow, 1923 — collaborated in the design of a number of structures. Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, on the Dnieper River in Zaporizhzhia, 1927-1932 — with Viktor Vesnin and others. Tsentrosoyuz building (Central Cooperative Alliance), Moscow, (design 1928 - 1933, built 1933) — collaboration with Le Corbusier. Chistye Prudy station of the Moscow Metro, 1935. North Pavilion for the Park Kultury station of the Moscow Metro, 1935 — with S.G. Andrievsky. Paveletskaya station of the Moscow Metro, 1950 — with I. Kasetl.