Rzhepishevskyi Oleksandr Ivanovych

Biography Born in 1879 in Izmail, Bessarabia Governorate, in a family of an officer. In 1882, he moved with his parents to Akkerman, Odesa Governorate.

He studied at the Akkerman Men's Gymnasium, then at the 4th Odessa Gymnasium, and then, following his older brothers, entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Novorossiya University (Odesa). Deciding to become an architect, he went to St. Petersburg, where in 1903 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers with a gold medal. He received the right to continue his studies abroad. He went to Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne in 1904–1906.

He returned to the Russian Empire and got married. He could not count on the help of his parents' family, as it was large. Joining forces with an old friend, architect Nikolai Vasyliev, he began participating in architectural competitions held in St. Petersburg. The project of a new merchant bank by the two architects was liked and accepted for implementation by the guild of merchants of the city of Kharkiv. Rzhepishevsky was invited to Kharkiv to supervise the implementation of the bank project.

He worked in Kharkiv in 1910–1920, where he created a number of buildings that are now . One of the architect's last buildings is the "Dolosy" sanatorium, Yalta, Crimea.

Rzhepishevsky was one of the initiators of the creation in the Russian Empire of the "Society of Private Apartments", which can be considered a prototype of modern construction cooperatives. Apartments in such houses were owned by residents, each owner could choose individual decoration and layout. One of the first such houses was built according to his project at in 1912. It became known as the "", because the architect placed several fountains in the entrance, some of which are still working (until the Russian invasion in 2022). The owners of the apartments were people of "liberal professions": lawyers, doctors, architects. Oleksandr Ivanovych himself lived in this house, as well as architect . The apartments consisted of 4–6 rooms, had a reception room and an office. In 1914, after the construction of another company house, but with larger rooms (up to 50 square meters), the architect and his family moved to , where he and his family occupied two apartments.

He was married twice. He is the father of one of the first Soviet film stars and the famous Soviet choreographer Halyna Shakhovska.

1910–1913 — City Merchant Bank with the Astoria Hotel, in co–authorship with architect Nikolai Vasyliev, 10 ; 1910 — Mindovsky Textile Factory, 6 1910 — Bakakin Textile Factory, 19 1911 — Kontrolsky's tenement house, 4 1912 — , known as the "", 6 . Rzhepishevsky and architect lived in this house. 1912 — complex of warehouse and administrative buildings, 5 1912–1913 — P.M. Livshits's house, 7 1912–1913 — House of the Oleninska Children's Hospital Society, 5 1913 — Moldavsky merchant's tenement house, 15 1913 — residential building, 8 1913 — residential building, 33 1913 — tenement house, 8 1914 — mansion of the actor, head of the Kharkiv Theater M.M. Synelnikov, 29 1914 — Max Gelferich's tenement house, 14 1914 — , 19 . Rzhepishevsky lived in this house. 1914 — O.I. Melgunova's tenement house, 8 1914 — Manus Volovnyk merchant's tenement house, 3 1914 — company house, 6 1914 — tenement house, 17 1914 — Professor Brandt's private clinic, 23 1915 – Moldavsky merchant's house, 4 1915 — Red Cross hospital, 5 1915 — Dmytro Abramov merchant's house, 21 Myronosytska Street

The Dolossy sanatorium was built in Yalta according to his design.

Author of several houses on the Garden Ring in Moscow and the mansion of industrialist A. Rebinder in Shebekino (Kursk Governorate).

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