Viktor Vesnin

Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; April 9, 1882 – September 17, 1950), was a Russian and Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers Leonid (1880–1933) and Alexander (1883–1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the Vesnin brothers. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.

Selected work

1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project 1927-1932 DnieproGES, with Nikolai Kolli 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project 1922-23 Palace of Labor project 1915 Sirotkin House, Nizhny Novgorod 1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin)