Nikolai Severov

Nikolai Pavlovich Severov (2 March 1887 – 21 February 1957) was a Soviet architect and architectural historian who served as Chairman of the Union of Architects of the Georgian SSR (1935–1948) and was a professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He is best known for designing the Rustaveli Cinema in Tbilisi and for his documentation of medieval Georgian architectural monuments.

Early life and education Severov was born on 2 March 1887 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire. He attended secondary school in Vladikavkaz.

In 1904, Severov moved to Saint Petersburg, where he studied watercolour at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. In 1905, he passed the entrance examination for the Institute of Civil Engineers, where he studied architecture. His first independent project was the railway station in Feodosiya.

Following the outbreak of World War I, Severov completed his studies in 1915 and was subsequently conscripted into the army.

Honours and awards Order of the Red Banner of Labour Honorary Member, Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1939) Full Member, Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR (1948)